State comparison · 2025
Healthcare Social Workers salary: Alabama vs California
Healthcare Social Workers in California earn a median of $89,660. In Alabama, $60,000. After cost-of-living, the gap is 16.6% — not 33.1%.
Nominal pay gap
-33.1%
Alabama vs California
COL-adjusted gap
-16.6%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Alabama
Healthcare Social Workers
- Median
- $60,000
- p25
- $48,350
- p75
- $65,710
- p10
- $40,020
- p90
- $74,440
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 88.8
California
Healthcare Social Workers
- Median
- $89,660
- p25
- $67,630
- p75
- $118,740
- p10
- $54,220
- p90
- $134,880
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 110.7
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -76%
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. Cost-of-living adjustment from BEA Regional Price Parities (overall index). Hiring velocity from DOL OFLC public disclosure data, recent 180 days vs prior. See methodology.