State comparison · 2025
Health and Safety Engineers salary: Alabama vs Massachusetts
Health and Safety Engineers in Massachusetts earn a median of $131,210. In Alabama, $105,490. After cost-of-living, the gap is 4.2% — not 19.6%.
Nominal pay gap
-19.6%
Alabama vs Massachusetts
COL-adjusted gap
-4.2%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Alabama
Health and Safety Engineers
- Median
- $105,490
- p25
- $85,600
- p75
- $134,100
- p10
- $68,420
- p90
- $165,440
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 88.8
Massachusetts
Health and Safety Engineers
- Median
- $131,210
- p25
- $102,940
- p75
- $175,410
- p10
- $94,340
- p90
- $215,430
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 105.8
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- +75%
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.