New York - Workers in the New York metropolitan region get paid $1.14 for every $1 the average American worker earns, according to data released by the U.S. Labor Department. That’s makes Greater New York the second-best paid part of the country, trailing only the Bay Area in California (where workers get $1.20).
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WSJ’s Real Time Economics gathered the pay data into an interactive map, showing the gap is inside different sectors. Construction workers in Greater New York, for example, get $1.29 for every buck earned by the average construction worker. But the low end of the industry does far worse, as WSJ’s Sara Murray notes:
"Construction workers faced the largest pay disparities based on where they worked. The field was most lucrative in the New York and San Jose metros as well as in the Chicago-Naperville-Michigan City area. Workers there earned nearly 30% more than the average construction worker in the U.S. While workers in the New York area earned $1.29 compared to every dollar earned nationwide, construction workers in the Brownsville, Texas, metro earned just 68 cents to the dollar."
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