Paralegals and Legal Assistants
Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY metropolitan area. Estimated employment 600.
Where you sit in the distribution
That is the median — half of people in this occupation in Kiryas Joel earn more.
$61,350 in Kiryas Joel buys what $56,100 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 | $75,330 | $66,900 | 112.6 | +19.4% |
| Kingston | $62,210 | $61,800 | 100.7 | +10.2% |
| Kiryas Joel This page | $61,350 | $56,100 | 109.4 | — |
| Syracuse | $61,150 | $63,900 | 95.7 | +13.9% |
| Albany | $60,680 | $60,900 | 99.6 | +8.7% |
| Ithaca | $60,550 | $58,600 | 103.3 | +4.5% |
| Binghamton | $60,420 | $65,100 | 92.9 | +16.0% |
| Glens Falls | $59,170 | $62,400 | 94.9 | +11.2% |
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
- 600 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
- Occupation
- SOC 23-2011, Paralegals and Legal Assistants. Mapped to our taxonomy as paralegals-and-legal-assistants.
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