State comparison · 2025
Purchasing Managers salary: Kentucky vs New Jersey
Purchasing Managers in New Jersey earn a median of $174,520. In Kentucky, $124,350. After cost-of-living, the gap is 14.1% — not 28.7%.
Nominal pay gap
-28.7%
Kentucky vs New Jersey
COL-adjusted gap
-14.1%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Kentucky
Purchasing Managers
- Median
- $124,350
- p25
- $96,470
- p75
- $144,720
- p10
- $76,770
- p90
- $174,690
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 90.2
New Jersey
Purchasing Managers
- Median
- $174,520
- p25
- $140,610
- p75
- $218,770
- p10
- $117,660
- p90
- $285,280
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 108.8
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -33%
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.