State comparison · 2025
Optometrists salary: Alabama vs Maryland
Optometrists in Maryland earn a median of $165,840. In Alabama, $145,090. After cost-of-living, the gap is 3.4% — not 12.5%.
Nominal pay gap
-12.5%
Alabama vs Maryland
COL-adjusted gap
+3.4%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Alabama
Optometrists
- Median
- $145,090
- p25
- $104,730
- p75
- $166,870
- p10
- $56,740
- p90
- $196,600
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 88.8
Maryland
Optometrists
- Median
- $165,840
- p25
- $81,780
- p75
- $201,810
- p10
- $50,560
- p90
- $215,420
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 105.0
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- +100%
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.