State comparison · 2025
Physicists salary: Florida vs Kentucky
Physicists in Florida earn a median of $225,390. In Kentucky, $180,910. After cost-of-living, the gap is 8.7% — not 24.6%.
Nominal pay gap
+24.6%
Florida vs Kentucky
COL-adjusted gap
+8.7%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Florida
Physicists
- Median
- $225,390
- p25
- $153,980
- p75
- $285,400
- p10
- $113,240
- p90
- $308,580
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 103.4
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -22%
Kentucky
Physicists
- Median
- $180,910
- p25
- $120,100
- p75
- $232,170
- p10
- $65,860
- p90
- $282,000
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 90.2
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -50%
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.