State comparison · 2025
Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks salary: Illinois vs Massachusetts
Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks in Massachusetts earn a median of $59,830. In Illinois, $49,560. After cost-of-living, the gap is 12.4% — not 17.2%.
Nominal pay gap
-17.2%
Illinois vs Massachusetts
COL-adjusted gap
-12.4%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Illinois
Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks
- Median
- $49,560
- p25
- $42,680
- p75
- $60,130
- p10
- $32,360
- p90
- $71,480
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 100.0
Massachusetts
Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks
- Median
- $59,830
- p25
- $49,160
- p75
- $69,110
- p10
- $40,760
- p90
- $81,080
- 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.