State comparison · 2025
Physicists salary: Delaware vs Florida
Physicists in Florida earn a median of $225,390. In Delaware, $82,590. After cost-of-living, the gap is 62% — not 63.4%.
Nominal pay gap
-63.4%
Delaware vs Florida
COL-adjusted gap
-62%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Delaware
Physicists
- Median
- $82,590
- p25
- $64,570
- p75
- $210,590
- p10
- $64,570
- p90
- $293,950
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 99.8
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- 0%
Florida
Physicists
- Median
- $225,390
- p25
- $153,980
- p75
- $285,400
- p10
- $113,240
- p90
- $308,580
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 103.4
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -22%
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.