State comparison · 2025
Purchasing Managers salary: Colorado vs Pennsylvania
Purchasing Managers in Colorado earn a median of $171,250. In Pennsylvania, $141,790. After cost-of-living, the gap is 14.3% — not 20.8%.
Nominal pay gap
+20.8%
Colorado vs Pennsylvania
COL-adjusted gap
+14.3%
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
Pennsylvania
Purchasing Managers
- Median
- $141,790
- p25
- $106,020
- p75
- $170,190
- p10
- $84,480
- p90
- $213,390
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 97.6
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- +100%
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.