State comparison · 2025
Purchasing Managers salary: Colorado vs Massachusetts
Purchasing Managers in Colorado earn a median of $171,250. In Massachusetts, $170,750. After cost-of-living, the gap is 2.9% — not 0.3%.
Nominal pay gap
+0.3%
Colorado vs Massachusetts
COL-adjusted gap
+2.9%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Colorado
Purchasing Managers
- Median
- $171,250
- p25
- $141,190
- p75
- $209,740
- p10
- $122,790
- p90
- $247,610
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 103.1
Massachusetts
Purchasing Managers
- Median
- $170,750
- p25
- $135,340
- p75
- $215,850
- p10
- $105,500
- p90
- $266,990
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 105.8
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -67%
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.