State comparison · 2025
Project Management Specialists salary: Illinois vs New Jersey
Project Management Specialists in New Jersey earn a median of $122,980. In Illinois, $103,470. After cost-of-living, the gap is 8.5% — not 15.9%.
Nominal pay gap
-15.9%
Illinois vs New Jersey
COL-adjusted gap
-8.5%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Illinois
Project Management Specialists
- Median
- $103,470
- p25
- $81,000
- p75
- $132,360
- p10
- $65,300
- p90
- $163,910
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 100.0
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -38%
New Jersey
Project Management Specialists
- Median
- $122,980
- p25
- $92,850
- p75
- $155,490
- p10
- $74,410
- p90
- $190,600
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 108.8
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -61%
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.