State comparison · 2025
Cost Estimators salary: Arizona vs Massachusetts
Cost Estimators in Massachusetts earn a median of $100,840. In Arizona, $77,010. After cost-of-living, the gap is 19.8% — not 23.6%.
Nominal pay gap
-23.6%
Arizona vs Massachusetts
COL-adjusted gap
-19.8%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Arizona
Cost Estimators
- Median
- $77,010
- p25
- $58,710
- p75
- $99,110
- p10
- $37,440
- p90
- $127,880
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 100.7
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -57%
Massachusetts
Cost Estimators
- Median
- $100,840
- p25
- $75,420
- p75
- $127,400
- p10
- $58,870
- p90
- $151,780
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 105.8
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- +10%
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.