State comparison · 2025
Compensation and Benefits Managers salary: Alabama vs Massachusetts
Compensation and Benefits Managers in Massachusetts earn a median of $184,070. In Alabama, $118,470. After cost-of-living, the gap is 23.3% — not 35.6%.
Nominal pay gap
-35.6%
Alabama vs Massachusetts
COL-adjusted gap
-23.3%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Alabama
Compensation and Benefits Managers
- Median
- $118,470
- p25
- $101,300
- p75
- $152,880
- p10
- $84,090
- p90
- $205,840
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 88.8
Massachusetts
Compensation and Benefits Managers
- Median
- $184,070
- p25
- $161,000
- p75
- $223,150
- p10
- $128,390
- p90
- $285,030
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 105.8
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.