How much do Entertainers and Performers, Sports and Related Workers, All Other make in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH?

Percentile spread

For Entertainers and Performers, Sports and Related Workers, All Other, the published 10th percentile is $16.61 and the 90th percentile is $21.26. The difference is $4.65, which is 28.0% of the median. Ten percent of measured wages fall below the 10th percentile and ten percent fall above the 90th. How to read a percentile.

The middle half of the distribution, from the 25th percentile at $16.61 to the 75th at $16.62, covers $0.01.

The mean hourly wage is $18.07, which sits above the median of $16.61. Median and mean measure different points in the same distribution.

National and state comparison

The Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH median is 11.7% lower than the national median of $18.82 for Entertainers and Performers, Sports and Related Workers, All Other.

It is about the same as the Massachusetts median of $16.61.

Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH covers more than one state. The state comparison uses Massachusetts, the primary state on the BLS area record.

Price-adjusted pay

The 2024 all-items regional price parity for Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH is 108.266, with the United States at 100. The Bureau of Economic Analysis released those parities on February 19, 2026. Dividing the May 2025 median of $16.61 by that parity and multiplying by 100 puts Entertainers and Performers, Sports and Related Workers, All Other at $15.34 in national prices. The wage year and the price year are different. Compare this wage after prices.

Nearby metros

One other metropolitan area within 200 miles publishes a hourly median for Entertainers and Performers, Sports and Related Workers, All Other. Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH ranks 2nd of 2 on that median, counting itself. Distance is the great-circle mileage between Census Bureau internal points (U.S. Census Bureau, 2024 Gazetteer Files, Core Based Statistical Areas, internal points (INTPTLAT, INTPTLONG).).

• Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY is 168 miles away, with a median of $19.66. That median is 18.4% higher than the median here. In 2024 national prices it is $17.97, against $15.34 here.

Employment share

Entertainers and Performers, Sports and Related Workers, All Other accounts for 0.00% of wage-and-salary employment in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH (120 of 2,703,890). Nationally the occupation is 0.01% of employment (16,550 of 155,495,730). The local share is 0.42 times the national share. That ratio is the location quotient computed from these May 2025 employment counts. It is not copied from the location-quotient column in the BLS bulk file.