State comparison · 2025
Physicists salary: Delaware vs New Hampshire
Physicists in New Hampshire earn a median of $214,030. In Delaware, $82,590. After cost-of-living, the gap is 59.7% — not 61.4%.
Nominal pay gap
-61.4%
Delaware vs New Hampshire
COL-adjusted gap
-59.7%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Delaware
Physicists
- Median
- $82,590
- p25
- $64,570
- p75
- $210,590
- p10
- $64,570
- p90
- $293,950
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 99.8
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- 0%
New Hampshire
Physicists
- Median
- $214,030
- p25
- $145,220
- p75
- $267,600
- p10
- $96,760
- p90
- $301,570
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 104.2
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- 0%
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.