State comparison · 2025
Pharmacists salary: Kansas vs Oregon
Pharmacists in Oregon earn a median of $165,960. In Kansas, $137,800. After cost-of-living, the gap is 4.7% — not 17%.
Nominal pay gap
-17%
Kansas vs Oregon
COL-adjusted gap
-4.7%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Kansas
Pharmacists
- Median
- $137,800
- p25
- $126,670
- p75
- $159,380
- p10
- $78,770
- p90
- $169,310
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 90.1
Oregon
Pharmacists
- Median
- $165,960
- p25
- $144,020
- p75
- $182,040
- p10
- $126,040
- p90
- $193,860
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 103.4
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -71%
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.