State comparison · 2025
Purchasing Managers salary: Colorado vs Virginia
Purchasing Managers in Colorado earn a median of $171,250. In Virginia, $166,230. After cost-of-living, the gap is 1% — not 3%.
Nominal pay gap
+3%
Colorado vs Virginia
COL-adjusted gap
+1%
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
Virginia
Purchasing Managers
- Median
- $166,230
- p25
- $138,250
- p75
- $195,190
- p10
- $109,270
- p90
- $222,230
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 101.1
- 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.