State comparison · 2025
Optometrists salary: Delaware vs Maryland
Optometrists in Maryland earn a median of $165,840. In Delaware, $161,270. After cost-of-living, the gap is 2.3% — not 2.8%.
Nominal pay gap
-2.8%
Delaware vs Maryland
COL-adjusted gap
+2.3%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Delaware
Optometrists
- Median
- $161,270
- p25
- $107,880
- p75
- $175,750
- p10
- $77,980
- p90
- $188,490
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 99.8
Maryland
Optometrists
- Median
- $165,840
- p25
- $81,780
- p75
- $201,810
- p10
- $50,560
- p90
- $215,420
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 105.0
- 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.