State comparison · 2025
Budget Analysts salary: Alabama vs Virginia
Budget Analysts in Virginia earn a median of $105,470. In Alabama, $99,490. After cost-of-living, the gap is 7.4% — not 5.7%.
Nominal pay gap
-5.7%
Alabama vs Virginia
COL-adjusted gap
+7.4%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Alabama
Budget Analysts
- Median
- $99,490
- p25
- $76,400
- p75
- $124,380
- p10
- $61,050
- p90
- $142,670
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 88.8
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -33%
Virginia
Budget Analysts
- Median
- $105,470
- p25
- $84,590
- p75
- $133,490
- p10
- $70,610
- p90
- $156,750
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 101.1
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -71%
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.