State comparison · 2025
Compensation and Benefits Managers salary: Kentucky vs Massachusetts
Compensation and Benefits Managers in Massachusetts earn a median of $184,070. In Kentucky, $114,290. After cost-of-living, the gap is 27.2% — not 37.9%.
Nominal pay gap
-37.9%
Kentucky vs Massachusetts
COL-adjusted gap
-27.2%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Kentucky
Compensation and Benefits Managers
- Median
- $114,290
- p25
- $99,990
- p75
- $138,330
- p10
- $80,850
- p90
- $194,170
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 90.2
Massachusetts
Compensation and Benefits Managers
- Median
- $184,070
- p25
- $161,000
- p75
- $223,150
- p10
- $128,390
- p90
- $285,030
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 105.8
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.