State comparison · 2025
Cost Estimators salary: Arkansas vs Massachusetts
Cost Estimators in Massachusetts earn a median of $100,840. In Arkansas, $61,470. After cost-of-living, the gap is 25.8% — not 39%.
Nominal pay gap
-39%
Arkansas vs Massachusetts
COL-adjusted gap
-25.8%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Arkansas
Cost Estimators
- Median
- $61,470
- p25
- $45,850
- p75
- $88,760
- p10
- $38,480
- p90
- $110,040
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 86.9
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.