State comparison · 2025
Interior Designers salary: California vs Massachusetts
Interior Designers in California earn a median of $80,230. In Massachusetts, $80,110. After cost-of-living, the gap is 4.3% — not 0.1%.
Nominal pay gap
+0.1%
California vs Massachusetts
COL-adjusted gap
-4.3%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
California
Interior Designers
- Median
- $80,230
- p25
- $63,370
- p75
- $102,940
- p10
- $50,940
- p90
- $131,770
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 110.7
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -71%
Massachusetts
Interior Designers
- Median
- $80,110
- p25
- $61,640
- p75
- $95,410
- p10
- $52,230
- p90
- $123,100
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 105.8
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -79%
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.