State comparison · 2025
Compensation and Benefits Managers salary: Iowa vs Massachusetts
Compensation and Benefits Managers in Massachusetts earn a median of $184,070. In Iowa, $118,250. After cost-of-living, the gap is 22.6% — not 35.8%.
Nominal pay gap
-35.8%
Iowa vs Massachusetts
COL-adjusted gap
-22.6%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Iowa
Compensation and Benefits Managers
- Median
- $118,250
- p25
- $94,640
- p75
- $167,940
- p10
- $77,000
- p90
- $202,600
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 87.8
Massachusetts
Compensation and Benefits Managers
- Median
- $184,070
- p25
- $161,000
- p75
- $223,150
- p10
- $128,390
- p90
- $285,030
- 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.