State comparison · 2025
Exercise Trainers and Group Fitness Instructors salary: Kentucky vs Massachusetts
Exercise Trainers and Group Fitness Instructors in Massachusetts earn a median of $64,620. In Kentucky, $45,280. After cost-of-living, the gap is 17.8% — not 29.9%.
Nominal pay gap
-29.9%
Kentucky vs Massachusetts
COL-adjusted gap
-17.8%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Kentucky
Exercise Trainers and Group Fitness Instructors
- Median
- $45,280
- p25
- $35,090
- p75
- $55,080
- p10
- $23,720
- p90
- $70,790
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 90.2
Massachusetts
Exercise Trainers and Group Fitness Instructors
- Median
- $64,620
- p25
- $50,760
- p75
- $96,140
- p10
- $36,110
- p90
- $105,390
- 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.