State comparison · 2025
Industrial Production Managers salary: Delaware vs Kansas
Industrial Production Managers in Delaware earn a median of $153,000. In Kansas, $125,750. After cost-of-living, the gap is 9.8% — not 21.7%.
Nominal pay gap
+21.7%
Delaware vs Kansas
COL-adjusted gap
+9.8%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Delaware
Industrial Production Managers
- Median
- $153,000
- p25
- $129,290
- p75
- $178,190
- p10
- $99,770
- p90
- $214,960
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 99.8
Kansas
Industrial Production Managers
- Median
- $125,750
- p25
- $100,360
- p75
- $159,660
- p10
- $82,340
- p90
- $203,680
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 90.1
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- +17%
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.