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First-Line Supervisors of Housekeeping and Janitorial Workers

New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ metropolitan area. Estimated employment 11,670.

Data released May 2025 BLS OEWS · SOC 37-1011
Fig. 1 — The wage rule

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$59,990 · 50th
$40,40010th
$48,34025th
$59,99050th
$75,07075th
$85,65090th

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

Table 1 — Adjusted

$59,990 in New York buys what $53,300 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.

Table 2 — Nearby metros

The same job, elsewhere in New York

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

Metro areaMedianAdjustedRPPvs. New York
Kingston$60,960$60,500100.7+13.6%
Ithaca$60,840$58,900103.3+10.5%
New York This page$59,990$53,300112.6
Glens Falls$59,650$62,90094.9+18.0%
Albany$59,230$59,50099.6+11.6%
Kiryas Joel$56,970$52,100109.4−2.3%
Utica$55,750$60,20092.7+12.9%
Buffalo$55,060$57,40095.8+7.8%

Price parity and difference against New York 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.

40k50k60k70k 20212022202320242025
Nominal, as published Real, in 2025 dollars US$ thousands

Published pay rose 20.4% 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.

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
11,670 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
Occupation
SOC 37-1011, First-Line Supervisors of Housekeeping and Janitorial Workers. Mapped to our taxonomy as first-line-supervisors-of-housekeeping-and-janitorial-workers.

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