State comparison · 2025
Project Management Specialists salary: Alabama vs New Jersey
Project Management Specialists in New Jersey earn a median of $122,980. In Alabama, $100,820. After cost-of-living, the gap is 0.4% — not 18%.
Nominal pay gap
-18%
Alabama vs New Jersey
COL-adjusted gap
+0.4%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Alabama
Project Management Specialists
- Median
- $100,820
- p25
- $78,010
- p75
- $132,500
- p10
- $63,550
- p90
- $164,910
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 88.8
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -43%
New Jersey
Project Management Specialists
- Median
- $122,980
- p25
- $92,850
- p75
- $155,490
- p10
- $74,410
- p90
- $190,600
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 108.8
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -61%
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.