State comparison · 2025
Financial Managers salary: Iowa vs Massachusetts
Financial Managers in Massachusetts earn a median of $206,760. In Iowa, $133,320. After cost-of-living, the gap is 22.3% — not 35.5%.
Nominal pay gap
-35.5%
Iowa vs Massachusetts
COL-adjusted gap
-22.3%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Iowa
Financial Managers
- Median
- $133,320
- p25
- $102,130
- p75
- $173,660
- p10
- $80,020
- p90
- $225,920
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 87.8
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -50%
Massachusetts
Financial Managers
- Median
- $206,760
- p25
- $161,870
- p75
- $287,520
- p10
- $120,850
- p90
- $332,490
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 105.8
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -42%
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.