Waiters and Waitresses
Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY metropolitan area. Estimated employment 3,930.
Where you sit in the distribution
That is the median — half of waiters and waitresses in Kiryas Joel earn more.
$46,950 in Kiryas Joel buys what $42,900 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Albany | $48,980 | $49,200 | 99.6 | +14.7% |
| Syracuse | $47,640 | $49,800 | 95.7 | +16.0% |
| New York | $47,610 | $42,300 | 112.6 | −1.4% |
| Kiryas Joel This page | $46,950 | $42,900 | 109.4 | — |
| Binghamton | $46,600 | $50,200 | 92.9 | +17.0% |
| Buffalo | $46,580 | $48,600 | 95.8 | +13.3% |
| Kingston | $46,440 | $46,100 | 100.7 | +7.5% |
| Elmira | $46,160 | $48,900 | 94.4 | +14.0% |
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
- 3,930 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
- Occupation
- SOC 35-3031, Waiters and Waitresses. Mapped to our taxonomy as waiters-and-waitresses.
Percentiles are reported exactly as released and are never interpolated between published values. We take no payment from employers, recruiters or anyone else for how any figure is presented.