State comparison · 2025
Industrial Production Managers salary: Delaware vs Kentucky
Industrial Production Managers in Delaware earn a median of $153,000. In Kentucky, $112,250. After cost-of-living, the gap is 23.2% — not 36.3%.
Nominal pay gap
+36.3%
Delaware vs Kentucky
COL-adjusted gap
+23.2%
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
Kentucky
Industrial Production Managers
- Median
- $112,250
- p25
- $91,490
- p75
- $145,070
- p10
- $73,530
- p90
- $187,950
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 90.2
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -40%
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.