Contract Specialist

Across all employers in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ area, the median wage for Buyers and Purchasing Agents — about 29,360 people — is $83,350. Department of Youth & Community Development Services pays a median base salary of $74,014 for this role, 11% below that figure — about the 34th percentile of local pay for the occupation.

Computed over the 16 of 18 people in this role paid at least $25,000in base salary. The rest are part-year or part-time records, whose actual pay isn’t comparable to a full-time annual wage.

Median total compensation for this role at Department of Youth & Community Development Services is $74,073, which includes overtime and employer-paid benefits. The benchmark above excludes both, so total compensation is deliberately not compared against it.

Benchmark: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025). BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) covers all employers in the area — private, non-profit, and government alike — so this is a comparison against the whole local labor market for the occupation, not against private-sector pay. OEWS wages are straight-time pay and exclude overtime, shift differentials, and employer-paid benefits, so the government figure shown here is base pay on the same basis. Total compensation is not comparable to it. Job titles are matched to the closest standard occupation, so the comparison is between similar work rather than an identical job classification.

Contract Specialist is held in 10 New York City departments. In Department of Youth & Community Development Services, the median of $74,073 ranks #4 of 10.

This role is reported in 7 jurisdictions. In New York City, the median of $67,477 ranks #5 of 7. See Contract Specialist across all of New York City →