State comparison · 2025
Cost Estimators salary: Alaska vs Missouri
Cost Estimators in Alaska earn a median of $97,020. In Missouri, $76,020. After cost-of-living, the gap is 13.2% — not 27.6%.
Nominal pay gap
+27.6%
Alaska vs Missouri
COL-adjusted gap
+13.2%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Alaska
Cost Estimators
- Median
- $97,020
- p25
- $64,460
- p75
- $141,420
- p10
- $52,020
- p90
- $163,740
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 102.4
Missouri
Cost Estimators
- Median
- $76,020
- p25
- $56,880
- p75
- $98,600
- p10
- $44,840
- p90
- $128,270
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 90.8
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -67%
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.