State comparison · 2025
Architects salary: Maine vs Massachusetts
Architects in Massachusetts earn a median of $117,330. In Maine, $78,600. After cost-of-living, the gap is 27% — not 33%.
Nominal pay gap
-33%
Maine vs Massachusetts
COL-adjusted gap
-27%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Maine
Architects
- Median
- $78,600
- p25
- $65,460
- p75
- $101,150
- p10
- $51,920
- p90
- $123,790
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 97.1
Massachusetts
Architects
- Median
- $117,330
- p25
- $87,050
- p75
- $127,780
- p10
- $82,920
- p90
- $163,060
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 105.8
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -61%
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.