State comparison · 2025
Cost Estimators salary: Alaska vs Pennsylvania
Cost Estimators in Alaska earn a median of $97,020. In Pennsylvania, $78,480. After cost-of-living, the gap is 17.8% — not 23.6%.
Nominal pay gap
+23.6%
Alaska vs Pennsylvania
COL-adjusted gap
+17.8%
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
Pennsylvania
Cost Estimators
- Median
- $78,480
- p25
- $62,610
- p75
- $99,580
- p10
- $49,570
- p90
- $126,620
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 97.6
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -80%
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.