State comparison · 2025
Financial Managers salary: Alabama vs New Jersey
Financial Managers in New Jersey earn a median of $199,110. In Alabama, $140,500. After cost-of-living, the gap is 13.5% — not 29.4%.
Nominal pay gap
-29.4%
Alabama vs New Jersey
COL-adjusted gap
-13.5%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Alabama
Financial Managers
- Median
- $140,500
- p25
- $108,390
- p75
- $191,080
- p10
- $86,340
- p90
- $256,750
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 88.8
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- 0%
New Jersey
Financial Managers
- Median
- $199,110
- p25
- $162,800
- p75
- $279,330
- p10
- $130,630
- p90
- $337,130
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 108.8
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -46%
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.