Firefighters
Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY metropolitan area. Estimated employment 230.
Where you sit in the distribution
That is the median — half of firefighters in Kiryas Joel earn more.
$76,120 in Kiryas Joel buys what $69,600 buys across the country as a whole.
Kiryas Joel's regional price parity is 109.4 — 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. Kiryas Joel |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New York | $106,420 | $94,500 | 112.6 | +35.9% |
| Rochester | $89,120 | $91,800 | 97.0 | +32.0% |
| Binghamton | $81,810 | $88,100 | 92.9 | +26.6% |
| Kiryas Joel This page | $76,120 | $69,600 | 109.4 | — |
| Utica | $75,060 | $81,000 | 92.7 | +16.4% |
| Buffalo | $74,470 | $77,700 | 95.8 | +11.7% |
| Albany | $70,840 | $71,100 | 99.6 | +2.3% |
| Watertown | $60,700 | $69,200 | 87.7 | −0.5% |
Price parity and difference against Kiryas Joel are in the full table on wider screens.
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
- 230 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
- Occupation
- SOC 33-2011, Firefighters. Mapped to our taxonomy as firefighters.
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.