State comparison · 2025
Optometrists salary: Kentucky vs Maryland
Optometrists in Maryland earn a median of $165,840. In Kentucky, $128,860. After cost-of-living, the gap is 9.5% — not 22.3%.
Nominal pay gap
-22.3%
Kentucky vs Maryland
COL-adjusted gap
-9.5%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Kentucky
Optometrists
- Median
- $128,860
- p25
- $97,290
- p75
- $168,030
- p10
- $82,240
- p90
- $254,630
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 90.2
Maryland
Optometrists
- Median
- $165,840
- p25
- $81,780
- p75
- $201,810
- p10
- $50,560
- p90
- $215,420
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 105.0
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- +100%
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.