Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators
Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY metropolitan area. Estimated employment 590.
Where you sit in the distribution
That is the median — half of people in this occupation in Kiryas Joel earn more.
$72,240 in Kiryas Joel buys what $66,000 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 | $95,050 | $84,400 | 112.6 | +27.9% |
| Albany | $82,540 | $82,900 | 99.6 | +25.6% |
| Buffalo | $73,650 | $76,800 | 95.8 | +16.4% |
| Kiryas Joel This page | $72,240 | $66,000 | 109.4 | — |
| Kingston | $70,370 | $69,900 | 100.7 | +5.8% |
| Elmira | $65,760 | $69,700 | 94.4 | +5.5% |
| Rochester | $65,720 | $67,700 | 97.0 | +2.6% |
| Syracuse | $63,810 | $66,600 | 95.7 | +1.0% |
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
- 590 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
- Occupation
- SOC 47-2073, Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators. Mapped to our taxonomy as operating-engineers-and-other-construction-equipment-operators.
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