State comparison · 2025
Optometrists salary: Kansas vs Maryland
Optometrists in Maryland earn a median of $165,840. In Kansas, $138,580. After cost-of-living, the gap is 2.6% — not 16.4%.
Nominal pay gap
-16.4%
Kansas vs Maryland
COL-adjusted gap
-2.6%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Kansas
Optometrists
- Median
- $138,580
- p25
- $118,910
- p75
- $160,270
- p10
- $85,010
- p90
- $192,720
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 90.1
Maryland
Optometrists
- Median
- $165,840
- p25
- $81,780
- p75
- $201,810
- p10
- $50,560
- p90
- $215,420
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 105.0
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- +100%
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.