State comparison · 2025
Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks salary: Iowa vs Massachusetts
Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks in Massachusetts earn a median of $59,830. In Iowa, $48,180. After cost-of-living, the gap is 3% — not 19.5%.
Nominal pay gap
-19.5%
Iowa vs Massachusetts
COL-adjusted gap
-3%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Iowa
Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks
- Median
- $48,180
- p25
- $41,140
- p75
- $57,540
- p10
- $33,240
- p90
- $66,490
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 87.8
Massachusetts
Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks
- Median
- $59,830
- p25
- $49,160
- p75
- $69,110
- p10
- $40,760
- p90
- $81,080
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 105.8
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.