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Education and Childcare Administrators, Preschool and Daycare pay in New York and South Dakota
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for Education and Childcare Administrators, Preschool and Daycare is $96,810 per year in New York. It is $63,240 per year in South Dakota. New York is 53.1% above South Dakota on the published median.
Both rows use SOC 11-9031 and the same annual wage metric. Median means the middle of each area's published wage spread. It is not one worker's pay. The larger median is not proof that one place gives a better job or a better result. It is one wage fact from one source period.
BLS lists 3,950 wage and salary jobs in New York and 150 in South Dakota. Those are survey job counts, not open posts. Read pay, job scale, local share, and price level as separate facts before you make a choice.