State comparison · 2025
Optometrists salary: California vs Maryland
Optometrists in Maryland earn a median of $165,840. In California, $136,300. After cost-of-living, the gap is 22% — not 17.8%.
Nominal pay gap
-17.8%
California vs Maryland
COL-adjusted gap
-22%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
California
Optometrists
- Median
- $136,300
- p25
- $122,960
- p75
- $166,300
- p10
- $99,890
- p90
- $213,710
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 110.7
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -71%
Maryland
Optometrists
- Median
- $165,840
- p25
- $81,780
- p75
- $201,810
- p10
- $50,560
- p90
- $215,420
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 105.0
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- +100%
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.