Costume Attendants · SOC 39-3092

Costume Attendants Salary in the Boston Metro Area

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro area

Figures describe the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metropolitan statistical area as defined by BLS/OMB — the whole multi-county metro region, not Boston city limits.

Median annual wage$56,000
Median hourly wage$26.92

Costume Attendants in the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro area earned a median of $56,000 per year ($26.92 per hour) as of the May 2025 BLS OEWS estimates. Pay ranged from $39,210 at the 10th percentile to $75,470 at the 90th. BLS estimates 70 people work in this occupation in the area.

Pay distribution

Half of Costume Attendants in the Boston metro area earn more than $56,000 per year, half earn less; the middle half earn between $48,180 and $58,460.

Wage percentiles (BLS OEWS)
Wage10th25thMedian75th90th
Annual$39,210$48,180$56,000$58,460$75,470
Hourly$18.85$23.16$26.92$28.11$36.28

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

  • Boston metro areathis metro area
    $56,000 median for Boston metro area; middle half earns $48,180 to $58,460
  • Massachusettsstate (MA)
    $55,190 median for Massachusetts; middle half earns $43,350 to $58,410
  • $50,400 median for United States; middle half earns $38,610 to $77,680

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

The median here is +1% vs Massachusetts overall and +11% vs the U.S. median for this occupation.

Compare with other areas

Where this metro sits nationally

$24,410$51,877$79,343$106,810San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX — $24,410Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX — $26,380Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX — $27,090Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC — $33,510Kansas City, MO-KS — $35,100Madison, WI — $39,190Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN — $39,730Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA — $39,800Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI — $40,440North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL — $40,800Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ — $41,440San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA — $43,620Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL — $43,780Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT — $44,280Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA — $45,010Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX — $45,750St. Louis, MO-IL — $47,160Cleveland, OH — $48,780Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN — $49,180Lancaster, PA — $49,600Pittsburgh, PA — $49,660Salt Lake City-Murray, UT — $50,020Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV — $51,280Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI — $52,000Columbus, OH — $55,310Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH — $56,000Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV — $56,690San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA — $59,260Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD — $59,420Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA — $65,460San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA — $69,930Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA — $94,900New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ — $95,230Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA — $106,810

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 Boston metro area has the 9th-highest published median for this occupation among the 34 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”.

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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.