State comparison · 2025
Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors salary: Delaware vs Washington
Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors in Washington earn a median of $82,670. In Delaware, $74,070. After cost-of-living, the gap is 3.9% — not 10.4%.
Nominal pay gap
-10.4%
Delaware vs Washington
COL-adjusted gap
-3.9%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Delaware
Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors
- Median
- $74,070
- p25
- $59,700
- p75
- $88,900
- p10
- $47,750
- p90
- $96,140
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 99.8
Washington
Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors
- Median
- $82,670
- p25
- $65,470
- p75
- $104,690
- p10
- $57,980
- p90
- $125,950
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 107.0
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -25%
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.