State comparison · 2025
Compliance Officers salary: Kentucky vs New Jersey
Compliance Officers in New Jersey earn a median of $100,000. In Kentucky, $69,240. After cost-of-living, the gap is 16.5% — not 30.8%.
Nominal pay gap
-30.8%
Kentucky vs New Jersey
COL-adjusted gap
-16.5%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Kentucky
Compliance Officers
- Median
- $69,240
- p25
- $52,630
- p75
- $83,460
- p10
- $43,120
- p90
- $109,300
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 90.2
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- 0%
New Jersey
Compliance Officers
- Median
- $100,000
- p25
- $76,180
- p75
- $128,790
- p10
- $58,860
- p90
- $158,540
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 108.8
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -56%
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.