State comparison · 2025
Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors salary: Kentucky vs Washington
Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors in Washington earn a median of $82,670. In Kentucky, $64,350. After cost-of-living, the gap is 7.7% — not 22.2%.
Nominal pay gap
-22.2%
Kentucky vs Washington
COL-adjusted gap
-7.7%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Kentucky
Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors
- Median
- $64,350
- p25
- $49,080
- p75
- $78,580
- p10
- $40,840
- p90
- $99,390
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 90.2
Washington
Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors
- Median
- $82,670
- p25
- $65,470
- p75
- $104,690
- p10
- $57,980
- p90
- $125,950
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 107.0
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -25%
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.