State comparison · 2025
Cost Estimators salary: Kansas vs Massachusetts
Cost Estimators in Massachusetts earn a median of $100,840. In Kansas, $76,250. After cost-of-living, the gap is 11.2% — not 24.4%.
Nominal pay gap
-24.4%
Kansas vs Massachusetts
COL-adjusted gap
-11.2%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Kansas
Cost Estimators
- Median
- $76,250
- p25
- $62,190
- p75
- $96,980
- p10
- $48,860
- p90
- $118,310
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 90.1
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.