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Biological Technicians · SOC 19-4021

Biological Technicians Salary in the Ithaca Metro Area

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025Ithaca, NY metro area

Figures describe the Ithaca, NY metropolitan statistical area as defined by BLS/OMB — the whole multi-county metro region, not Ithaca city limits.

Median annual wage$60,900
Median hourly wage$29.28

Biological Technicians in the Ithaca, NY metro area earned a median of $60,900 per year ($29.28 per hour) as of the May 2025 BLS OEWS estimates. Pay ranged from $35,380 at the 10th percentile to $73,820 at the 90th. BLS estimates 80 people work in this occupation in the area.

Pay distribution

Half of Biological Technicians in the Ithaca metro area earn more than $60,900 per year, half earn less; the middle half earn between $44,580 and $62,610.

Wage percentiles (BLS OEWS)
Wage10th25thMedian75th90th
Annual$35,380$44,580$60,900$62,610$73,820
Hourly$17.01$21.43$29.28$30.10$35.49

A percentile is a cut point: 25% of workers in this occupation and area earn less than the 25th-percentile wage. The median is the 50th percentile — half earn less, half earn more.

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How this area compares

  • Ithaca metro areathis metro area
    $60,900
  • New Yorkstate (NY)
    $61,210
  • United Statesnational
    $57,510

Bars span the 25th–75th percentile (the middle half of workers); the tick marks the median.

The median here is −1% vs New York overall and +6% vs the U.S. median for this occupation.

Compare with other areas

Where this metro sits nationally

$34,690$54,867$75,043$95,220College Station-Bryan, TX — $34,690Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL — $36,050Brownsville-Harlingen, TX — $36,090Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux, LA — $36,090Kahului-Wailuku, HI — $36,090Twin Falls, ID — $38,210Lubbock, TX — $38,640Idaho Falls, ID — $39,080Boise City, ID — $40,330Logan, UT-ID — $40,500Visalia, CA — $41,080Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, FL — $41,450Green Bay, WI — $42,630Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR — $42,630Coeur d'Alene, ID — $44,550Baton Rouge, LA — $44,950Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ — $44,960Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL — $45,290Brunswick-St. Simons, GA — $45,360Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX — $45,750Fresno, CA — $46,450McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX — $46,860Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR — $46,930Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA — $47,110Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL — $47,180Bellingham, WA — $47,310Warner Robins, GA — $47,350Fairbanks-College, AK — $47,380Kingston, NY — $47,530Oklahoma City, OK — $47,530Fayetteville, NC — $47,580Gainesville, GA — $47,620Rochester, NY — $47,670Pittsburgh, PA — $47,810Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL — $47,910Wichita, KS — $47,930Iowa City, IA — $48,050Grand Forks, ND-MN — $48,190Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV — $48,210Medford, OR — $48,420Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN — $48,510Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC — $48,600Utica-Rome, NY — $48,670North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL — $49,160Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL — $49,180San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR — $49,230San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX — $49,430Omaha, NE-IA — $49,440Bozeman, MT — $49,470Tucson, AZ — $49,550Albuquerque, NM — $49,570Tulsa, OK — $49,650Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC — $49,730Flagstaff, AZ — $49,940Gainesville, FL — $49,940Urban Honolulu, HI — $50,000Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX — $50,140New Orleans-Metairie, LA — $50,200Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN — $50,210Akron, OH — $50,220Savannah, GA — $50,260Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI — $50,320Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA — $50,320Huntsville, AL — $50,330Reading, PA — $50,400Helena, MT — $50,430Reno, NV — $50,540Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI — $50,580Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH — $50,660Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC — $50,790Memphis, TN-MS-AR — $50,840Burlington-South Burlington, VT — $51,190Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI — $51,240Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA — $51,320Jacksonville, FL — $51,560Bismarck, ND — $51,630Columbia, MO — $51,630Grand Junction, CO — $51,630Corvallis, OR — $51,670Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV — $51,680Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, VA — $51,710Madison, WI — $51,750Toledo, OH — $51,760Ogden, UT — $51,780Provo-Orem-Lehi, UT — $51,900Ann Arbor, MI — $52,110Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI — $52,150Salem, OR — $52,190Colorado Springs, CO — $52,300Asheville, NC — $52,440Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT — $52,510Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL — $52,570Kansas City, MO-KS — $52,630Cleveland, OH — $52,690Kennewick-Richland, WA — $52,700Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD — $52,900Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC — $52,930Salt Lake City-Murray, UT — $52,960Portland-South Portland, ME — $53,000Gulfport-Biloxi, MS — $53,190Eugene-Springfield, OR — $53,290Missoula, MT — $53,330Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA — $53,370Amherst Town-Northampton, MA — $53,560Manchester-Nashua, NH — $53,850Burlington, NC — $53,980Springfield, MA — $54,140Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, WA — $54,190Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX — $54,260Lexington-Fayette, KY — $54,810Lansing-East Lansing, MI — $55,430Roanoke, VA — $55,520St. Louis, MO-IL — $55,600Fort Collins-Loveland, CO — $55,700Yakima, WA — $56,560Providence-Warwick, RI-MA — $56,850Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA — $57,200Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN — $57,700Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA — $57,840Stockton-Lodi, CA — $58,070Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA — $58,240Durham-Chapel Hill, NC — $58,400Jackson, MS — $58,550Naples-Marco Island, FL — $59,170Salinas, CA — $59,320Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN — $59,550Greensboro-High Point, NC — $59,890Columbus, OH — $59,900Anchorage, AK — $60,240Vallejo, CA — $60,360Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA — $60,470Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY — $60,580Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD — $60,630Ithaca, NY — $60,900Barnstable Town, MA — $61,150Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ — $61,280Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH — $61,610Charleston-North Charleston, SC — $61,640Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT — $61,990State College, PA — $62,000Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC — $62,060Port St. Lucie, FL — $62,070Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN — $62,630New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ — $62,780Wilmington, NC — $62,960Syracuse, NY — $63,060Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV — $63,510Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA — $63,770Raleigh-Cary, NC — $64,200Champaign-Urbana, IL — $64,270Athens-Clarke County, GA — $64,360Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA — $64,410Bloomington, IN — $64,570Norwich-New London-Willimantic, CT — $64,600Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO — $65,140Richmond, VA — $65,210Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA — $66,110Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA — $66,240Charlottesville, VA — $66,590Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA — $66,610San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA — $67,060Worcester, MA — $69,730Peoria, IL — $72,120San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA — $72,940Boulder, CO — $75,390Tyler, TX — $77,020Trenton-Princeton, NJ — $77,170San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA — $95,220

Each dot is one metro area with a published median — hover any dot for the name and figure. Metros without published estimates are not drawn.

The Ithaca metro area has the 35th-highest published median for this occupation among the 168 metro areas where BLS publishes it. Higher medians often track higher living costs — this is a pay comparison, not a ranking of where the job is “best”.

Other metro areas in New York

Metro areas in the same state with published May 2025 medians for biological technicians, highest first. Areas without published estimates are not listed.

  • Ithaca metro areathis page
    $60,900
  • Syracuse metro area
    $63,060
  • New York metro area
    $62,780
  • Albany metro area
    $60,580
  • Utica metro area
    $48,670
  • Rochester metro area
    $47,670
  • Kingston metro area
    $47,530

Bars span the 25th–75th percentile (the middle half of workers); the tick marks the median.

Keep exploring

Other occupations in the same SOC group with published medians here, largest employment first:

Life, Physical, and Social Science Technicians, All Other$46,640Biological Scientists, All Other$88,610Environmental Scientists and Specialists, Including Health$78,790Clinical and Counseling Psychologists$117,860School Psychologists$78,930Social Scientists and Related Workers, All Other$69,660

Highest-paying metro areas for biological technicianss · Highest-paying occupations in Ithaca Metro

About this estimate

These figures are survey estimates from the BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program — modeled from employer reports collected over three years and benchmarked to May 2025. They describe what employers in this area currently pay across all industries, not what any individual worker will be offered.

Employment counts wage-and-salary jobs in the occupation (self-employed workers are excluded). Estimates carry sampling error; percentile wages are rounded by BLS. Some values are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality or quality — suppressed values appear here as “not published”, never as zero. Read the full methodology.

About this data. Estimates are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program, May 2025 release, retrieved from bls.gov/oes/tables.htm on July 24, 2026. OEWS estimates describe metropolitan/nonmetropolitan areas and states — not city limits — and are not designed for year-over-year comparisons. See BLS methodology, our plain-English methodology, and sources. CitySalaryData is independent and not affiliated with BLS.