State comparison · 2025
Compensation and Benefits Managers salary: Kansas vs Massachusetts
Compensation and Benefits Managers in Massachusetts earn a median of $184,070. In Kansas, $114,070. After cost-of-living, the gap is 27.2% — not 38%.
Nominal pay gap
-38%
Kansas vs Massachusetts
COL-adjusted gap
-27.2%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Kansas
Compensation and Benefits Managers
- Median
- $114,070
- p25
- $92,710
- p75
- $146,040
- p10
- $82,890
- p90
- $173,240
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 90.1
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.