State comparison · 2025
Financial Managers salary: California vs Massachusetts
Financial Managers in Massachusetts earn a median of $206,760. In California, $180,770. After cost-of-living, the gap is 16.4% — not 12.6%.
Nominal pay gap
-12.6%
California vs Massachusetts
COL-adjusted gap
-16.4%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
California
Financial Managers
- Median
- $180,770
- p25
- $136,030
- p75
- $269,990
- p10
- $101,820
- p90
- $341,670
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 110.7
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -28%
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.