State comparison · 2025
Cost Estimators salary: Idaho vs Massachusetts
Cost Estimators in Massachusetts earn a median of $100,840. In Idaho, $79,700. After cost-of-living, the gap is 12.4% — not 21%.
Nominal pay gap
-21%
Idaho vs Massachusetts
COL-adjusted gap
-12.4%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Idaho
Cost Estimators
- Median
- $79,700
- p25
- $61,110
- p75
- $103,660
- p10
- $48,200
- p90
- $137,530
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 95.5
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.