State comparison · 2025
Compensation and Benefits Managers salary: Idaho vs Massachusetts
Compensation and Benefits Managers in Massachusetts earn a median of $184,070. In Idaho, $90,020. After cost-of-living, the gap is 45.8% — not 51.1%.
Nominal pay gap
-51.1%
Idaho vs Massachusetts
COL-adjusted gap
-45.8%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Idaho
Compensation and Benefits Managers
- Median
- $90,020
- p25
- $85,060
- p75
- $120,220
- p10
- $83,710
- p90
- $199,990
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 95.5
Massachusetts
Compensation and Benefits Managers
- Median
- $184,070
- p25
- $161,000
- p75
- $223,150
- p10
- $128,390
- p90
- $285,030
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 105.8
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.