State comparison · 2025
Cost Estimators salary: Illinois vs Massachusetts
Cost Estimators in Massachusetts earn a median of $100,840. In Illinois, $82,750. After cost-of-living, the gap is 13.2% — not 17.9%.
Nominal pay gap
-17.9%
Illinois vs Massachusetts
COL-adjusted gap
-13.2%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Illinois
Cost Estimators
- Median
- $82,750
- p25
- $61,710
- p75
- $108,240
- p10
- $49,200
- p90
- $136,590
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 100.0
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -74%
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.