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title: "Average Salary in New York, NY-NJ"
description: "Mean $86,310, median $61,430 in the New York metro area (BLS OEWS May 2025), with prices and top jobs."
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last-updated: "2026-10-15T08:19:32.066Z"
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# Average salary in New York, NY-NJ

New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ metropolitan statistical area. Mean annual wage $86,310, median $61,430 (US: $69,770 / $50,980), BLS OEWS May 2025, 9,492,000 jobs. Median at national-average prices: $54,570.

| Percentile | Annual wage |
| --- | --- |
| 10th | $36,130 |
| 25th | $42,560 |
| 50th | $61,430 |
| 75th | $103,500 |
| 90th | $166,080 |

| Price level (BEA RPP 2024, US = 100) | Index |
| --- | --- |
| All items | 112.6 |
| Housing (rents) | 148.6 |
| Goods | 110.3 |
| Utilities | 127.0 |
| Other services | 105.8 |

## Highest-paying jobs (mean annual wage)

- [Family Medicine Physician](https://nuecareer.com/careers/family-medicine-physician): $236,520
- [Sales Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/sales-manager): $233,770
- [Broadcast Announcer and Radio Disc Jockey](https://nuecareer.com/careers/broadcast-announcer-and-radio-disc-jockey): $230,150
- [IT Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/it-manager): $224,990
- [Lawyer](https://nuecareer.com/careers/lawyer): $224,850
- [Financial Advisor](https://nuecareer.com/careers/financial-advisor): $217,170
- [Public Relations Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/public-relations-manager): $208,810
- [Marketing Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/marketing-manager): $207,770
- [Human Resources Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/human-resources-manager): $204,800
- [Commercial Pilot](https://nuecareer.com/careers/commercial-pilot): $204,770

Occupation pay is the OEWS May 2025 metro mean as published in the DOL OFLC 2026–27 wage file (metro-level estimates only).

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This bank includes information from the O\*NET 31.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). O\*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. NueCareer has transformed the data by joining it to BLS wage and projection data and deriving facet, personality-fit and AI-resilience scores. BLS and BEA data are public domain (17 U.S.C. §105).

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