State comparison · 2025
Optometrists salary: Delaware vs North Carolina
Optometrists in North Carolina earn a median of $161,560. In Delaware, $161,270. After cost-of-living, the gap is 5.7% — not 0.2%.
Nominal pay gap
-0.2%
Delaware vs North Carolina
COL-adjusted gap
-5.7%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Delaware
Optometrists
- Median
- $161,270
- p25
- $107,880
- p75
- $175,750
- p10
- $77,980
- p90
- $188,490
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 99.8
North Carolina
Optometrists
- Median
- $161,560
- p25
- $123,250
- p75
- $193,790
- p10
- $94,320
- p90
- $215,340
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 94.3
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- +100%
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.