State comparison · 2025
Cost Estimators salary: California vs Massachusetts
Cost Estimators in Massachusetts earn a median of $100,840. In California, $85,460. After cost-of-living, the gap is 19% — not 15.3%.
Nominal pay gap
-15.3%
California vs Massachusetts
COL-adjusted gap
-19%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
California
Cost Estimators
- Median
- $85,460
- p25
- $65,690
- p75
- $118,060
- p10
- $51,750
- p90
- $150,790
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 110.7
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -39%
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.