State comparison · 2025
Physicists salary: Georgia vs Pennsylvania
Physicists in Pennsylvania earn a median of $210,990. In Georgia, $144,870. After cost-of-living, the gap is 30.4% — not 31.3%.
Nominal pay gap
-31.3%
Georgia vs Pennsylvania
COL-adjusted gap
-30.4%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Georgia
Physicists
- Median
- $144,870
- p25
- $106,870
- p75
- $240,030
- p10
- $79,860
- p90
- $288,170
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 96.3
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -83%
Pennsylvania
Physicists
- Median
- $210,990
- p25
- $150,950
- p75
- $231,190
- p10
- $88,300
- p90
- $261,820
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 97.6
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- +73%
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.