State comparison · 2025
Compliance Officers salary: Alabama vs Massachusetts
Compliance Officers in Massachusetts earn a median of $102,060. In Alabama, $72,990. After cost-of-living, the gap is 14.8% — not 28.5%.
Nominal pay gap
-28.5%
Alabama vs Massachusetts
COL-adjusted gap
-14.8%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Alabama
Compliance Officers
- Median
- $72,990
- p25
- $51,300
- p75
- $98,470
- p10
- $41,620
- p90
- $126,870
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 88.8
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -67%
Massachusetts
Compliance Officers
- Median
- $102,060
- p25
- $78,390
- p75
- $130,230
- p10
- $63,340
- p90
- $161,920
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 105.8
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -53%
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.