Compared with the local labor market
Transportation Planner pay vs. New York
Across all employers in New York, the median wage for Social Scientists and Related Workers, All Other — about 3,410 people — is $104,770. Metropolitan Transportation Authority pays a median base salary of $73,797 for this role, 30% below that figure — about the 17th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
Where Metropolitan Transportation Authority sits in the local pay range
$67,210
$82,140
$104,770
$114,880
$138,590
Metropolitan Transportation Authority median · $73,797
The bar is the range of annual wages for Social Scientists and Related Workers, All Other across every employer in New York, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Social Scientists and Related Workers, All Other — about 37,100 people — is $101,110. Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s median base salary is 27% below that national figure, about the 18th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.
$66,120
$80,860
$101,110
$129,960
$160,300
Metropolitan Transportation Authority median · $73,797
Local and national wages differ for reasons beyond how well a job pays — cost of living, the mix of employers, and local demand for the occupation all move the New York range relative to the national one.
Computed over the 15 of 23 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 Metropolitan Transportation Authority is $64,956, 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.