State comparison · 2025
Project Management Specialists salary: Colorado vs New Jersey
Project Management Specialists in New Jersey earn a median of $122,980. In Colorado, $110,050. After cost-of-living, the gap is 5.6% — not 10.5%.
Nominal pay gap
-10.5%
Colorado vs New Jersey
COL-adjusted gap
-5.6%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Colorado
Project Management Specialists
- Median
- $110,050
- p25
- $85,010
- p75
- $136,990
- p10
- $68,990
- p90
- $171,630
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 103.1
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -64%
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.