State comparison · 2025
Financial Managers salary: Illinois vs New Jersey
Financial Managers in New Jersey earn a median of $199,110. In Illinois, $165,880. After cost-of-living, the gap is 9.4% — not 16.7%.
Nominal pay gap
-16.7%
Illinois vs New Jersey
COL-adjusted gap
-9.4%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Illinois
Financial Managers
- Median
- $165,880
- p25
- $128,370
- p75
- $216,800
- p10
- $100,070
- p90
- $313,110
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 100.0
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -55%
New Jersey
Financial Managers
- Median
- $199,110
- p25
- $162,800
- p75
- $279,330
- p10
- $130,630
- p90
- $337,130
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 108.8
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -46%
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.