State comparison · 2025
Physicists salary: Alabama vs Pennsylvania
Physicists in Pennsylvania earn a median of $210,990. In Alabama, $139,330. After cost-of-living, the gap is 27.4% — not 34%.
Nominal pay gap
-34%
Alabama vs Pennsylvania
COL-adjusted gap
-27.4%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Alabama
Physicists
- Median
- $139,330
- p25
- $103,570
- p75
- $195,190
- p10
- $74,290
- p90
- $227,790
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 88.8
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -50%
Pennsylvania
Physicists
- Median
- $210,990
- p25
- $150,950
- p75
- $231,190
- p10
- $88,300
- p90
- $261,820
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 97.6
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- +73%
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.