State comparison · 2025
Physicists salary: Kentucky vs New Hampshire
Physicists in New Hampshire earn a median of $214,030. In Kentucky, $180,910. After cost-of-living, the gap is 2.4% — not 15.5%.
Nominal pay gap
-15.5%
Kentucky vs New Hampshire
COL-adjusted gap
-2.4%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Kentucky
Physicists
- Median
- $180,910
- p25
- $120,100
- p75
- $232,170
- p10
- $65,860
- p90
- $282,000
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 90.2
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -50%
New Hampshire
Physicists
- Median
- $214,030
- p25
- $145,220
- p75
- $267,600
- p10
- $96,760
- p90
- $301,570
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 104.2
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- 0%
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.