State comparison · 2025
Human Resources Specialists salary: Delaware vs Massachusetts
Human Resources Specialists in Massachusetts earn a median of $85,630. In Delaware, $77,700. After cost-of-living, the gap is 3.8% — not 9.3%.
Nominal pay gap
-9.3%
Delaware vs Massachusetts
COL-adjusted gap
-3.8%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Delaware
Human Resources Specialists
- Median
- $77,700
- p25
- $61,700
- p75
- $100,840
- p10
- $50,960
- p90
- $132,030
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 99.8
Massachusetts
Human Resources Specialists
- Median
- $85,630
- p25
- $67,050
- p75
- $115,060
- p10
- $57,500
- p90
- $145,130
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 105.8
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -75%
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.