State comparison · 2025
Cost Estimators salary: Illinois vs Wyoming
Cost Estimators in Wyoming earn a median of $90,790. In Illinois, $82,750. After cost-of-living, the gap is 15.5% — not 8.9%.
Nominal pay gap
-8.9%
Illinois vs Wyoming
COL-adjusted gap
-15.5%
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%
Wyoming
Cost Estimators
- Median
- $90,790
- p25
- $74,730
- p75
- $104,000
- p10
- $52,680
- p90
- $108,490
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 92.7
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.