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Nursing Assistants

Barnstable Town, MA metropolitan area. Estimated employment 1,030.

Data released May 2025 BLS OEWS · SOC 31-1131
Fig. 1 — The wage rule

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$48,520 · 50th
$38,86010th
$43,57025th
$48,52050th
$52,83075th
$63,86090th

That is the medianhalf of nursing assistants in Barnstable Town earn more.

Table 1 — Adjusted

$48,520 in Barnstable Town buys what $49,300 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
Barnstable Town This page$48,520$49,30098.4
Boston$47,590$44,000108.3−10.9%
Pittsfield$46,620$49,00095.1−0.6%
Amherst Town$46,110$46,000100.2−6.8%
Worcester$45,710$44,600102.5−9.6%
Springfield$44,740$46,60096.1−5.6%

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
1,030 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
Occupation
SOC 31-1131, Nursing Assistants. Mapped to our taxonomy as nursing-assistants.

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