Fast Food and Counter Workers
New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ metropolitan area. Estimated employment 166,040.
Where you sit in the distribution
That is the median — half of people in this occupation in New York earn more.
$35,420 in New York buys what $31,500 buys across the country as a whole.
New York's regional price parity is 112.6 — well above the national average — a dollar here buys noticeably less than in the US as a whole. Adjusted figures for other metros are in the nearby-metros table below.
The same job, elsewhere in New York
Adjusted figures apply each metro's regional price parity, so the columns are directly comparable.
| Metro area | Median | Adjusted | RPP | vs. New York |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kingston | $35,460 | $35,200 | 100.7 | +11.9% |
| New York This page | $35,420 | $31,500 | 112.6 | — |
| Kiryas Joel | $35,320 | $32,300 | 109.4 | +2.6% |
| Ithaca | $34,800 | $33,700 | 103.3 | +7.0% |
| Buffalo | $34,560 | $36,100 | 95.8 | +14.6% |
| Albany | $34,060 | $34,200 | 99.6 | +8.7% |
| Syracuse | $33,940 | $35,400 | 95.7 | +12.7% |
| Glens Falls | $33,890 | $35,700 | 94.9 | +13.5% |
Price parity and difference against New York are in the full table on wider screens.
Nominal against real
The same median, once as published and once restated in 2025 dollars.
Published pay rose 18.9% over the five years to 2025. Adjusted for inflation it is roughly flat — people in this occupation in New York earn about what they earned in 2021. The two lines meet at the right edge by construction, since 2025 is the base year.
How this page was made
- Wage data
- Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 release. Public domain.
- Price parity
- Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Price Parities, 2024.
- Inflation
- Real figures deflate by CPI-U annual averages (BLS, all items, US city average).
- Employment
- 166,040 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
- Occupation
- SOC 35-3023, Fast Food and Counter Workers. Mapped to our taxonomy as fast-food-and-counter-workers.
Percentiles are reported exactly as released and are never interpolated between published values. We take no payment from employers, recruiters or anyone else for how any figure is presented.