First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers
State College, PA metropolitan area. Estimated employment 340.
Where you sit in the distribution
That is the median — half of people in this occupation in State College earn more.
$78,880 in State College buys what $81,500 buys across the country as a whole.
State College's regional price parity is 96.8 — below the national average, so a dollar here goes further than the nominal figure suggests. Adjusted figures for other metros are in the nearby-metros table below.
The same job, elsewhere in Pennsylvania
Adjusted figures apply each metro's regional price parity, so the columns are directly comparable.
| Metro area | Median | Adjusted | RPP | vs. State College |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Philadelphia | $95,840 | $93,500 | 102.6 | +14.6% |
| Harrisburg | $86,090 | $87,300 | 98.7 | +7.1% |
| Pittsburgh | $83,030 | $87,700 | 94.7 | +7.6% |
| Allentown | $82,490 | $82,500 | 100.0 | +1.2% |
| Altoona | $80,220 | $89,600 | 89.5 | +9.9% |
| York | $80,000 | $83,300 | 96.0 | +2.2% |
| Erie | $79,350 | $87,200 | 91.0 | +7.0% |
| State College This page | $78,880 | $81,500 | 96.8 | — |
Price parity and difference against State College 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 6.3% over the five years to 2025. Adjusted for inflation it fell 10.5% — prices rose faster than pay since 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
- 340 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
- Occupation
- SOC 47-1011, First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers. Mapped to our taxonomy as first-line-supervisors-of-construction-trades-and-extraction-workers.
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