State comparison · 2025
Financial Managers salary: Arkansas vs Massachusetts
Financial Managers in Massachusetts earn a median of $206,760. In Arkansas, $116,570. After cost-of-living, the gap is 31.4% — not 43.6%.
Nominal pay gap
-43.6%
Arkansas vs Massachusetts
COL-adjusted gap
-31.4%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Arkansas
Financial Managers
- Median
- $116,570
- p25
- $82,140
- p75
- $168,060
- p10
- $62,780
- p90
- $225,010
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 86.9
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- +500%
Massachusetts
Financial Managers
- Median
- $206,760
- p25
- $161,870
- p75
- $287,520
- p10
- $120,850
- p90
- $332,490
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 105.8
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -42%
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.