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Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop

Barnstable Town, MA metropolitan area. Estimated employment 680.

Data released May 2025 BLS OEWS · SOC 35-9031
Fig. 1 — The wage rule

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$34,870 · 50th
$31,20010th
$31,20025th
$34,87050th
$37,74075th
$43,16090th

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

Table 1 — Adjusted

$34,870 in Barnstable Town buys what $35,500 buys across the country as a whole.

Barnstable Town's regional price parity is 98.4 — 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 Massachusetts

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

Metro areaMedianAdjustedRPPvs. Barnstable Town
Boston$35,140$32,500108.3−8.5%
Barnstable Town This page$34,870$35,50098.4
Amherst Town$34,250$34,200100.2−3.6%
Worcester$33,620$32,800102.5−7.5%
Springfield$31,250$32,50096.1−8.2%
Pittsfield$31,210$32,80095.1−7.4%

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

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
680 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
Occupation
SOC 35-9031, Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop. Mapped to our taxonomy as hosts-and-hostesses-restaurant-lounge-and-coffee-shop.

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