State comparison · 2025
Budget Analysts salary: Delaware vs District of Columbia
Budget Analysts in District of Columbia earn a median of $124,590. In Delaware, $82,000. After cost-of-living, the gap is 27.5% — not 34.2%.
Nominal pay gap
-34.2%
Delaware vs District of Columbia
COL-adjusted gap
-27.5%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Delaware
Budget Analysts
- Median
- $82,000
- p25
- $77,570
- p75
- $102,520
- p10
- $65,980
- p90
- $122,260
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 99.8
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -50%
District of Columbia
Budget Analysts
- Median
- $124,590
- p25
- $101,400
- p75
- $144,680
- p10
- $82,060
- p90
- $156,750
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 109.9
- 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.