State comparison · 2025
Financial Specialists, All Other salary: Kentucky vs New York
Financial Specialists, All Other in New York earn a median of $107,490. In Kentucky, $65,690. After cost-of-living, the gap is 26.9% — not 38.9%.
Nominal pay gap
-38.9%
Kentucky vs New York
COL-adjusted gap
-26.9%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Kentucky
Financial Specialists, All Other
- Median
- $65,690
- p25
- $53,690
- p75
- $88,610
- p10
- $47,590
- p90
- $115,920
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 90.2
New York
Financial Specialists, All Other
- Median
- $107,490
- p25
- $76,140
- p75
- $174,950
- p10
- $55,370
- p90
- $230,770
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 107.9
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -55%
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.