State comparison · 2025
Cost Estimators salary: Alaska vs New Jersey
Cost Estimators in Alaska earn a median of $97,020. In New Jersey, $80,570. After cost-of-living, the gap is 27.9% — not 20.4%.
Nominal pay gap
+20.4%
Alaska vs New Jersey
COL-adjusted gap
+27.9%
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
New Jersey
Cost Estimators
- Median
- $80,570
- p25
- $62,530
- p75
- $109,060
- p10
- $50,390
- p90
- $137,080
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 108.8
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -79%
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.