State comparison · 2025
Physician Assistants salary: Kansas vs New Jersey
Physician Assistants in New Jersey earn a median of $165,690. In Kansas, $125,640. After cost-of-living, the gap is 8.4% — not 24.2%.
Nominal pay gap
-24.2%
Kansas vs New Jersey
COL-adjusted gap
-8.4%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Kansas
Physician Assistants
- Median
- $125,640
- p25
- $107,110
- p75
- $137,390
- p10
- $98,280
- p90
- $168,480
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 90.1
New Jersey
Physician Assistants
- Median
- $165,690
- p25
- $134,710
- p75
- $192,370
- p10
- $117,860
- p90
- $207,000
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 108.8
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- 0%
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.