State comparison · 2025
Cost Estimators salary: Delaware vs Massachusetts
Cost Estimators in Massachusetts earn a median of $100,840. In Delaware, $79,290. After cost-of-living, the gap is 16.6% — not 21.4%.
Nominal pay gap
-21.4%
Delaware vs Massachusetts
COL-adjusted gap
-16.6%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Delaware
Cost Estimators
- Median
- $79,290
- p25
- $62,850
- p75
- $91,520
- p10
- $49,580
- p90
- $108,280
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 99.8
Massachusetts
Cost Estimators
- Median
- $100,840
- p25
- $75,420
- p75
- $127,400
- p10
- $58,870
- p90
- $151,780
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 105.8
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- +10%
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.