State comparison · 2025
Architects salary: Kentucky vs Maryland
Architects in Maryland earn a median of $114,550. In Kentucky, $97,680. After cost-of-living, the gap is 0.7% — not 14.7%.
Nominal pay gap
-14.7%
Kentucky vs Maryland
COL-adjusted gap
-0.7%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Kentucky
Architects
- Median
- $97,680
- p25
- $75,420
- p75
- $116,460
- p10
- $60,980
- p90
- $130,490
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 90.2
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -86%
Maryland
Architects
- Median
- $114,550
- p25
- $81,280
- p75
- $148,700
- p10
- $68,320
- p90
- $182,370
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 105.0
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -65%
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.