State comparison · 2025
Cost Estimators salary: Colorado vs Massachusetts
Cost Estimators in Massachusetts earn a median of $100,840. In Colorado, $86,940. After cost-of-living, the gap is 11.5% — not 13.8%.
Nominal pay gap
-13.8%
Colorado vs Massachusetts
COL-adjusted gap
-11.5%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Colorado
Cost Estimators
- Median
- $86,940
- p25
- $73,400
- p75
- $109,990
- p10
- $58,890
- p90
- $137,520
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 103.1
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- 0%
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.