State comparison · 2025
Project Management Specialists salary: California vs New Jersey
Project Management Specialists in New Jersey earn a median of $122,980. In California, $120,910. After cost-of-living, the gap is 3.4% — not 1.7%.
Nominal pay gap
-1.7%
California vs New Jersey
COL-adjusted gap
-3.4%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
California
Project Management Specialists
- Median
- $120,910
- p25
- $85,620
- p75
- $155,850
- p10
- $69,180
- p90
- $188,560
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 110.7
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -7%
New Jersey
Project Management Specialists
- Median
- $122,980
- p25
- $92,850
- p75
- $155,490
- p10
- $74,410
- p90
- $190,600
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 108.8
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -61%
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.