Jobs in the Trenton-Princeton, NJ area: pay, hiring and remote work
The Trenton-Princeton, NJ metro area has 197 open job postings from 47 employers in our data. 57.7% list a pay range, the median posted pay is $138,500 a year, 3% are remote and 26.4% have been open more than 60 days (data as of October 2026).
What stands out
A $138,500 posted salary in the Trenton area buys about what $134,500 buys in the average US metro area, because prices here run 3% above the national average.
After adjusting for local prices, the typical worker's official median wage ($63,500) is worth $61,500 in average-US dollars, 7th of 99 metro areas.
57.7% of open job postings list a pay range, 9th of 99 metro areas.
Housing costs run 35% above the US average here (BEA regional price parities).
The unemployment rate is 4.9%, 0.8 points above the median of the metro areas in this report.
Trenton compared with similar-sized metro areas: the median wage divided by the local price level (US average prices = 100). Download this chart (SVG)
197open postings from 47 employers
57.7%list a pay range
$138,500median posted pay (middle half: $93,000 to $199,500)
3%remote
4.9%unemployment rate, 2026-08 (BLS)
$63,500official median wage for all jobs, May 2025 (BLS)
12.7%entry-level postings
The metro area's unemployment rate was 4.9% in 2026-08 (6% a year earlier) (BLS, not seasonally adjusted). Across New Jersey, employers had 172,000 job openings in 2025-12, an openings rate of 3.8% (BLS JOLTS). Indeed's own measure of job postings in the metro area is 15% below its February 2020 level and 3.3% lower than a year ago (Indeed Hiring Lab, 2026-10-02).
City by city inside the metro area
Place
Postings
Employers
Pay listed
Median posted pay
Princeton, NJ
165
29
62%
$145,000
Trenton, NJ
26
15
n/a
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Places with at least 15 postings from 3 employers. Shading shows where median posted pay is higher. Pay figures need 8 postings with pay.
22 federal job announcements open to the public list Trenton-Princeton, NJ, with a median posted salary range midpoint of $114,000. Agencies hiring most: Federal Aviation Administration (15), Veterans Affairs, Inspector General (2), Internal Revenue Service (1), U.S. Marshals Service (1), U.S. Secret Service (1). Source: USAJOBS, 2026-10-10.
What your paycheck buys here
Prices in the Trenton-Princeton, NJ area run 3% above the national average, and housing runs 35% above it. The official median wage for all jobs is $63,500, which is worth $61,500 in average-US dollars. The median posted pay of $138,500 is worth $134,500.
Local prices compared with the national average, where 100 is the US average. Download this chart (SVG)Median wages for the ten occupations with the most workers here (worker count in parentheses). Download this chart (SVG)Which industries have the most open postings in our data. Download this chart (SVG)
A posting that lists several places counts once in the metro. Metro areas are the Census Bureau's 2023 definitions. This covers employers whose career pages we read, not every job in the area. Methodology · All metro areas (CSV)
