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Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop

Springfield, MA metropolitan area. Estimated employment 620.

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

Where you sit in the distribution

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$31,250 · 50th
$31,20010th
$31,20025th
$31,25050th
$35,48075th
$37,00090th

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

Table 1 — Adjusted

$31,250 in Springfield buys what $32,500 buys across the country as a whole.

Springfield's regional price parity is 96.1 — 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. Springfield
Boston$35,140$32,500108.3−0.2%
Barnstable Town$34,870$35,50098.4+9.0%
Amherst Town$34,250$34,200100.2+5.0%
Worcester$33,620$32,800102.5+0.8%
Springfield This page$31,250$32,50096.1
Pittsfield$31,210$32,80095.1+0.9%

Price parity and difference against Springfield 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
620 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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