State comparison · 2025
Cost Estimators salary: Hawaii vs Massachusetts
Cost Estimators in Massachusetts earn a median of $100,840. In Hawaii, $80,360. After cost-of-living, the gap is 23.4% — not 20.3%.
Nominal pay gap
-20.3%
Hawaii vs Massachusetts
COL-adjusted gap
-23.4%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Hawaii
Cost Estimators
- Median
- $80,360
- p25
- $61,280
- p75
- $106,220
- p10
- $46,030
- p90
- $139,380
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 110.0
Massachusetts
Cost Estimators
- Median
- $100,840
- p25
- $75,420
- p75
- $127,400
- p10
- $58,870
- p90
- $151,780
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 105.8
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- +10%
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.