State comparison · 2025
Financial Managers salary: Kentucky vs New Jersey
Financial Managers in New Jersey earn a median of $199,110. In Kentucky, $130,650. After cost-of-living, the gap is 20.9% — not 34.4%.
Nominal pay gap
-34.4%
Kentucky vs New Jersey
COL-adjusted gap
-20.9%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Kentucky
Financial Managers
- Median
- $130,650
- p25
- $100,190
- p75
- $169,680
- p10
- $82,110
- p90
- $223,290
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 90.2
New Jersey
Financial Managers
- Median
- $199,110
- p25
- $162,800
- p75
- $279,330
- p10
- $130,630
- p90
- $337,130
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 108.8
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -46%
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.