State comparison · 2025
Financial Managers salary: Arkansas vs New Jersey
Financial Managers in New Jersey earn a median of $199,110. In Arkansas, $116,570. After cost-of-living, the gap is 26.7% — not 41.5%.
Nominal pay gap
-41.5%
Arkansas vs New Jersey
COL-adjusted gap
-26.7%
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%
New Jersey
Financial Managers
- Median
- $199,110
- p25
- $162,800
- p75
- $279,330
- p10
- $130,630
- p90
- $337,130
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 108.8
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -46%
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.