State comparison · 2025
Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors salary: Arkansas vs California
Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors in California earn a median of $86,500. In Arkansas, $59,770. After cost-of-living, the gap is 12% — not 30.9%.
Nominal pay gap
-30.9%
Arkansas vs California
COL-adjusted gap
-12%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Arkansas
Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors
- Median
- $59,770
- p25
- $46,610
- p75
- $67,570
- p10
- $38,520
- p90
- $78,070
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 86.9
California
Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors
- Median
- $86,500
- p25
- $63,910
- p75
- $119,790
- p10
- $51,890
- p90
- $136,660
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 110.7
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -68%
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.