State comparison · 2025
Cost Estimators salary: Iowa vs Massachusetts
Cost Estimators in Massachusetts earn a median of $100,840. In Iowa, $76,040. After cost-of-living, the gap is 9.1% — not 24.6%.
Nominal pay gap
-24.6%
Iowa vs Massachusetts
COL-adjusted gap
-9.1%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Iowa
Cost Estimators
- Median
- $76,040
- p25
- $58,450
- p75
- $93,380
- p10
- $48,740
- p90
- $118,410
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 87.8
Massachusetts
Cost Estimators
- Median
- $100,840
- p25
- $75,420
- p75
- $127,400
- p10
- $58,870
- p90
- $151,780
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 105.8
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- +10%
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.