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First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers

Pittsburgh, PA metropolitan area. Estimated employment 9,180.

Data released May 2025 BLS OEWS · SOC 35-1012
Fig. 1 — The wage rule

Where you sit in the distribution

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$40,530 · 50th
$30,77010th
$36,69025th
$40,53050th
$49,38075th
$61,50090th

That is the medianhalf of people in this occupation in Pittsburgh earn more.

Table 1 — Adjusted

$40,530 in Pittsburgh buys what $42,800 buys across the country as a whole.

Pittsburgh's regional price parity is 94.7 — 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.

Table 2 — Nearby metros

The same job, elsewhere in Pennsylvania

Adjusted figures apply each metro's regional price parity, so the columns are directly comparable.

Metro areaMedianAdjustedRPPvs. Pittsburgh
Philadelphia$46,580$45,400102.6+6.1%
Allentown$43,780$43,800100.0+2.3%
Lancaster$43,250$44,00098.3+2.8%
State College$42,500$43,90096.8+2.6%
Lebanon$40,780$43,70093.2+2.2%
Pittsburgh This page$40,530$42,80094.7
Gettysburg$40,000$41,90095.4−2.0%
Harrisburg$39,950$40,50098.7−5.4%

Price parity and difference against Pittsburgh are in the full table on wider screens.

Fig. 2 — Five-year trend

Nominal against real

The same median, once as published and once restated in 2025 dollars.

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Nominal, as published Real, in 2025 dollars US$ thousands

Published pay rose 11.3% over the five years to 2025. Adjusted for inflation it fell 6.3% — prices rose faster than pay since 2021. The two lines meet at the right edge by construction, since 2025 is the base year.

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.
Inflation
Real figures deflate by CPI-U annual averages (BLS, all items, US city average).
Employment
9,180 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
Occupation
SOC 35-1012, First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers. Mapped to our taxonomy as first-line-supervisors-of-food-preparation-and-serving-workers.

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