State comparison · 2025
Actuaries salary: Kentucky vs New York
Actuaries in New York earn a median of $156,480. In Kentucky, $120,400. After cost-of-living, the gap is 8% — not 23.1%.
Nominal pay gap
-23.1%
Kentucky vs New York
COL-adjusted gap
-8%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Kentucky
Actuaries
- Median
- $120,400
- p25
- $100,210
- p75
- $133,000
- p10
- $87,260
- p90
- $215,580
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 90.2
New York
Actuaries
- Median
- $156,480
- p25
- $106,140
- p75
- $211,330
- p10
- $82,250
- p90
- $277,800
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 107.9
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -68%
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.