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State comparison · 2025

Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks salary: California vs Massachusetts

Occupation

Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks in Massachusetts earn a median of $59,830. In California, $59,230. After cost-of-living, the gap is 5.4% — not 1%.

Nominal pay gap
-1%
California vs Massachusetts
COL-adjusted gap
-5.4%
After BEA Regional Price Parities

California

Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks

Median
$59,230
p25
$48,600
p75
$70,600
p10
$41,600
p90
$81,990
COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
110.7
Hiring velocity (180d)
0%
See full breakdown for California

Massachusetts

Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks

Median
$59,830
p25
$49,160
p75
$69,110
p10
$40,760
p90
$81,080
COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
105.8
See full breakdown for Massachusetts

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.