State comparison · 2025
Purchasing Managers salary: Alaska vs New Jersey
Purchasing Managers in New Jersey earn a median of $174,520. In Alaska, $114,650. After cost-of-living, the gap is 30.2% — not 34.3%.
Nominal pay gap
-34.3%
Alaska vs New Jersey
COL-adjusted gap
-30.2%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Alaska
Purchasing Managers
- Median
- $114,650
- p25
- $91,360
- p75
- $139,560
- p10
- $80,420
- p90
- $160,650
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 102.4
New Jersey
Purchasing Managers
- Median
- $174,520
- p25
- $140,610
- p75
- $218,770
- p10
- $117,660
- p90
- $285,280
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 108.8
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -33%
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.