State comparison · 2025
Compliance Officers salary: Illinois vs New Jersey
Compliance Officers in New Jersey earn a median of $100,000. In Illinois, $80,550. After cost-of-living, the gap is 12.4% — not 19.4%.
Nominal pay gap
-19.4%
Illinois vs New Jersey
COL-adjusted gap
-12.4%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Illinois
Compliance Officers
- Median
- $80,550
- p25
- $62,850
- p75
- $108,360
- p10
- $50,040
- p90
- $132,290
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 100.0
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -71%
New Jersey
Compliance Officers
- Median
- $100,000
- p25
- $76,180
- p75
- $128,790
- p10
- $58,860
- p90
- $158,540
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 108.8
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -56%
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.