State comparison · 2025
Physician Assistants salary: Delaware vs New Jersey
Physician Assistants in New Jersey earn a median of $165,690. In Delaware, $139,350. After cost-of-living, the gap is 8.3% — not 15.9%.
Nominal pay gap
-15.9%
Delaware vs New Jersey
COL-adjusted gap
-8.3%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Delaware
Physician Assistants
- Median
- $139,350
- p25
- $128,800
- p75
- $156,880
- p10
- $108,560
- p90
- $175,970
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 99.8
New Jersey
Physician Assistants
- Median
- $165,690
- p25
- $134,710
- p75
- $192,370
- p10
- $117,860
- p90
- $207,000
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 108.8
- 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.