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Chair asks average salary

New York City Council · Oct 27, 2026 · starts 1:16:54 · 42 sec

Won asks what average salary a community hire can expect. Harry says jobs vary widely across construction, human services, standard services, and professional services, and many are prevailing wage or union jobs.

Julie Won

What is the average salary one can expect from a community hiring opportunity?

Douglas Harry

So the types of jobs that are through community hiring are quite varied because it applies to such a broad range of different types of contracts from construction to the human services to standard services to professional services.

Douglas Harry

So it really depends on the type of job and the hiring needs.

Douglas Harry

But we know that many of these jobs are prevailing wage jobs, good union jobs in many cases.

Douglas Harry

And so we are excited about those opportunities and making sure that we are driving more jobs to the workforce system.