State comparison · 2025
Health and Safety Engineers salary: Kentucky vs Massachusetts
Health and Safety Engineers in Massachusetts earn a median of $131,210. In Kentucky, $107,760. After cost-of-living, the gap is 3.7% — not 17.9%.
Nominal pay gap
-17.9%
Kentucky vs Massachusetts
COL-adjusted gap
-3.7%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Kentucky
Health and Safety Engineers
- Median
- $107,760
- p25
- $89,740
- p75
- $135,160
- p10
- $72,780
- p90
- $173,470
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 90.2
Massachusetts
Health and Safety Engineers
- Median
- $131,210
- p25
- $102,940
- p75
- $175,410
- p10
- $94,340
- p90
- $215,430
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 105.8
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- +75%
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.