State comparison · 2025
Compensation and Benefits Managers salary: Delaware vs Massachusetts
Compensation and Benefits Managers in Massachusetts earn a median of $184,070. In Delaware, $166,070. After cost-of-living, the gap is 4.4% — not 9.8%.
Nominal pay gap
-9.8%
Delaware vs Massachusetts
COL-adjusted gap
-4.4%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Delaware
Compensation and Benefits Managers
- Median
- $166,070
- p25
- $148,730
- p75
- $220,470
- p10
- $114,950
- p90
- $264,990
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 99.8
Massachusetts
Compensation and Benefits Managers
- Median
- $184,070
- p25
- $161,000
- p75
- $223,150
- p10
- $128,390
- p90
- $285,030
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 105.8
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.