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Tailors, Dressmakers, and Custom Sewers pay in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ and Urban Honolulu, HI
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for Tailors, Dressmakers, and Custom Sewers is $63,050 per year in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ. It is $53,680 per year in Urban Honolulu, HI. New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ is 17.5% above Urban Honolulu, HI on the published median.
Both rows use SOC 51-6052 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 1,100 wage and salary jobs in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ and Not published in Urban Honolulu, HI. 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.
Evidence: bls-oews-may-2025 · Rule: same-soc-same-metric-pair · nominal-median-gap · employment-not-openings