Family and General Practitioners: $127,290
Internists, General: $164,160
Surgeons: $154,290
Lawyers:$132,690
Computer Software Engineers, Systems Software: $95,920
Computer Programmers $78,490
Chief Executives (management)$177,890
What New Yorkers Earn
What do people earn? It's a subject everyone in New York secretly wants to know to see where they stack up. The average salary for New York City area workers was $48,980 in 2006. The statewide average was $45,820.
Here are average salaries as reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in a survey of employers in May 2006. Salary info is for the New York metro area including New York City, Northern NJ, Westchester, and Long Island.