State comparison · 2025
Optometrists salary: Arizona vs Maryland
Optometrists in Maryland earn a median of $165,840. In Arizona, $122,250. After cost-of-living, the gap is 23.1% — not 26.3%.
Nominal pay gap
-26.3%
Arizona vs Maryland
COL-adjusted gap
-23.1%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Arizona
Optometrists
- Median
- $122,250
- p25
- $104,480
- p75
- $165,030
- p10
- $99,570
- p90
- $171,490
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 100.7
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -75%
Maryland
Optometrists
- Median
- $165,840
- p25
- $81,780
- p75
- $201,810
- p10
- $50,560
- p90
- $215,420
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 105.0
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- +100%
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.