State comparison · 2025
Cost Estimators salary: Maine vs Massachusetts
Cost Estimators in Massachusetts earn a median of $100,840. In Maine, $74,080. After cost-of-living, the gap is 20% — not 26.5%.
Nominal pay gap
-26.5%
Maine vs Massachusetts
COL-adjusted gap
-20%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Maine
Cost Estimators
- Median
- $74,080
- p25
- $56,660
- p75
- $90,340
- p10
- $41,450
- p90
- $123,040
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 97.1
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.