State comparison · 2025
First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers salary: Kansas vs Rhode Island
First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers in Rhode Island earn a median of $81,650. In Kansas, $74,480. After cost-of-living, the gap is 3.6% — not 8.8%.
Nominal pay gap
-8.8%
Kansas vs Rhode Island
COL-adjusted gap
+3.6%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Kansas
First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers
- Median
- $74,480
- p25
- $60,320
- p75
- $85,590
- p10
- $49,290
- p90
- $104,450
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 90.1
Rhode Island
First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers
- Median
- $81,650
- p25
- $62,920
- p75
- $103,540
- p10
- $48,080
- p90
- $133,180
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 102.3
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.