State comparison · 2025
Optometrists salary: Maine vs Maryland
Optometrists in Maryland earn a median of $165,840. In Maine, $154,110. After cost-of-living, the gap is 0.5% — not 7.1%.
Nominal pay gap
-7.1%
Maine vs Maryland
COL-adjusted gap
+0.5%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Maine
Optometrists
- Median
- $154,110
- p25
- $115,870
- p75
- $177,630
- p10
- $102,600
- p90
- $241,200
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 97.1
Maryland
Optometrists
- Median
- $165,840
- p25
- $81,780
- p75
- $201,810
- p10
- $50,560
- p90
- $215,420
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 105.0
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- +100%
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.