Laundry and Dry-Cleaning Workers
Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY metropolitan area. Estimated employment 520.
Where you sit in the distribution
That is the median — half of people in this occupation in Kiryas Joel earn more.
$35,620 in Kiryas Joel buys what $32,600 buys across the country as a whole.
Kiryas Joel's regional price parity is 109.4 — 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.
The same job, elsewhere in New York
Adjusted figures apply each metro's regional price parity, so the columns are directly comparable.
| Metro area | Median | Adjusted | RPP | vs. Kiryas Joel |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ithaca | $35,960 | $34,800 | 103.3 | +6.9% |
| New York | $35,910 | $31,900 | 112.6 | −2.0% |
| Kiryas Joel This page | $35,620 | $32,600 | 109.4 | — |
| Kingston | $35,200 | $35,000 | 100.7 | +7.4% |
| Binghamton | $35,090 | $37,800 | 92.9 | +16.1% |
| Albany | $35,000 | $35,200 | 99.6 | +8.0% |
| Buffalo | $34,980 | $36,500 | 95.8 | +12.1% |
| Glens Falls | $34,560 | $36,400 | 94.9 | +11.9% |
Price parity and difference against Kiryas Joel are in the full table on wider screens.
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
- 520 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
- Occupation
- SOC 51-6011, Laundry and Dry-Cleaning Workers. Mapped to our taxonomy as laundry-and-dry-cleaning-workers.
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