State comparison · 2025
Cost Estimators salary: Louisiana vs Massachusetts
Cost Estimators in Massachusetts earn a median of $100,840. In Louisiana, $77,030. After cost-of-living, the gap is 8.4% — not 23.6%.
Nominal pay gap
-23.6%
Louisiana vs Massachusetts
COL-adjusted gap
-8.4%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Louisiana
Cost Estimators
- Median
- $77,030
- p25
- $58,290
- p75
- $98,680
- p10
- $43,840
- p90
- $125,050
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 88.2
Massachusetts
Cost Estimators
- Median
- $100,840
- p25
- $75,420
- p75
- $127,400
- p10
- $58,870
- p90
- $151,780
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 105.8
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- +10%
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.