State comparison · 2025
Purchasing Managers salary: Kansas vs New Jersey
Purchasing Managers in New Jersey earn a median of $174,520. In Kansas, $159,850. After cost-of-living, the gap is 10.6% — not 8.4%.
Nominal pay gap
-8.4%
Kansas vs New Jersey
COL-adjusted gap
+10.6%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Kansas
Purchasing Managers
- Median
- $159,850
- p25
- $125,900
- p75
- $200,650
- p10
- $101,890
- p90
- $221,670
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 90.1
New Jersey
Purchasing Managers
- Median
- $174,520
- p25
- $140,610
- p75
- $218,770
- p10
- $117,660
- p90
- $285,280
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 108.8
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -33%
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.