Mental Health and Substance Abuse Social Workers
Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY metropolitan area. Estimated employment 410.
Where you sit in the distribution
That is the median — half of people in this occupation in Kiryas Joel earn more.
$79,870 in Kiryas Joel buys what $73,000 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New York | $82,450 | $73,200 | 112.6 | +0.3% |
| Kiryas Joel This page | $79,870 | $73,000 | 109.4 | — |
| Elmira | $79,410 | $84,100 | 94.4 | +15.2% |
| Ithaca | $78,220 | $75,700 | 103.3 | +3.7% |
| Albany | $76,970 | $77,300 | 99.6 | +5.9% |
| Utica | $73,200 | $79,000 | 92.7 | +8.2% |
| Kingston | $71,790 | $71,300 | 100.7 | −2.3% |
| Glens Falls | $71,710 | $75,600 | 94.9 | +3.6% |
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
- 410 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
- Occupation
- SOC 21-1023, Mental Health and Substance Abuse Social Workers. Mapped to our taxonomy as mental-health-and-substance-abuse-social-workers.
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