State comparison · 2025
Accountants and Auditors salary: Kansas vs New Jersey
Accountants and Auditors in New Jersey earn a median of $100,830. In Kansas, $79,000. After cost-of-living, the gap is 5.4% — not 21.7%.
Nominal pay gap
-21.7%
Kansas vs New Jersey
COL-adjusted gap
-5.4%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Kansas
Accountants and Auditors
- Median
- $79,000
- p25
- $62,960
- p75
- $100,650
- p10
- $52,960
- p90
- $129,800
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 90.1
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -45%
New Jersey
Accountants and Auditors
- Median
- $100,830
- p25
- $80,320
- p75
- $129,280
- p10
- $65,710
- p90
- $167,080
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 108.8
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -50%
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.