State comparison · 2025
Budget Analysts salary: Delaware vs Maryland
Budget Analysts in Maryland earn a median of $106,020. In Delaware, $82,000. After cost-of-living, the gap is 18.6% — not 22.7%.
Nominal pay gap
-22.7%
Delaware vs Maryland
COL-adjusted gap
-18.6%
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%
Maryland
Budget Analysts
- Median
- $106,020
- p25
- $83,820
- p75
- $133,220
- p10
- $65,680
- p90
- $156,750
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 105.0
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- +200%
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.