State comparison · 2025
Cost Estimators salary: Alabama vs Massachusetts
Cost Estimators in Massachusetts earn a median of $100,840. In Alabama, $74,990. After cost-of-living, the gap is 11.4% — not 25.6%.
Nominal pay gap
-25.6%
Alabama vs Massachusetts
COL-adjusted gap
-11.4%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Alabama
Cost Estimators
- Median
- $74,990
- p25
- $53,890
- p75
- $92,970
- p10
- $42,400
- p90
- $118,160
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 88.8
Massachusetts
Cost Estimators
- Median
- $100,840
- p25
- $75,420
- p75
- $127,400
- p10
- $58,870
- p90
- $151,780
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 105.8
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- +10%
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.