Fast Food and Counter Workers
Providence-Warwick, RI-MA metropolitan area. Estimated employment 21,530.
Data released May 2025
BLS OEWS · SOC 35-3023
Fig. 1 — The wage rule
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$33,700 · 50th
$31,20010th
$31,20025th
$33,70050th
$35,20075th
$36,70090th
That is the median — half of people in this occupation in Providence earn more.
Table 1 — Adjusted
$33,700 in Providence buys what $33,100 buys across the country as a whole.
Providence's regional price parity is 101.8 — above the national average, so the nominal figure overstates what it buys. Adjusted figures for other metros are in the nearby-metros table below.
Sources
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.
- Employment
- 21,530 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.
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