State comparison · 2025
Physicists salary: Colorado vs Florida
Physicists in Florida earn a median of $225,390. In Colorado, $104,580. After cost-of-living, the gap is 53.5% — not 53.6%.
Nominal pay gap
-53.6%
Colorado vs Florida
COL-adjusted gap
-53.5%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Colorado
Physicists
- Median
- $104,580
- p25
- $82,340
- p75
- $168,240
- p10
- $82,340
- p90
- $210,950
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 103.1
Florida
Physicists
- Median
- $225,390
- p25
- $153,980
- p75
- $285,400
- p10
- $113,240
- p90
- $308,580
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 103.4
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -22%
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.