Janitor

Across all employers in New York, the median wage for Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners — about 195,250 people — is $41,640. Ogdensburg Bridge and Port Authority pays a median base salary of $41,657 for this role, in line with that figure — about the 50th percentile of local pay for the occupation.

Computed over the 3 of 4 people in this role paid at least $25,000 in 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 Ogdensburg Bridge and Port Authority is $41,172, 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.

Janitor is held in 3 New York Public Authorities departments. In Ogdensburg Bridge and Port Authority, the median of $41,172 ranks #2 of 3.

This role is reported in 8 jurisdictions. In New York Public Authorities, the median of $40,533 ranks #4 of 8. See Janitor across all of New York Public Authorities →

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