State comparison · 2025
Computer Hardware Engineers salary: Kentucky vs Massachusetts
Computer Hardware Engineers in Massachusetts earn a median of $167,600. In Kentucky, $116,200. After cost-of-living, the gap is 18.7% — not 30.7%.
Nominal pay gap
-30.7%
Kentucky vs Massachusetts
COL-adjusted gap
-18.7%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Kentucky
Computer Hardware Engineers
- Median
- $116,200
- p25
- $97,280
- p75
- $126,180
- p10
- $71,400
- p90
- $128,050
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 90.2
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- +300%
Massachusetts
Computer Hardware Engineers
- Median
- $167,600
- p25
- $132,610
- p75
- $210,910
- p10
- $118,490
- p90
- $258,880
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 105.8
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- +5%
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.