State comparison · 2025
Compensation and Benefits Managers salary: Maryland vs Massachusetts
Compensation and Benefits Managers in Massachusetts earn a median of $184,070. In Maryland, $139,860. After cost-of-living, the gap is 23.4% — not 24%.
Nominal pay gap
-24%
Maryland vs Massachusetts
COL-adjusted gap
-23.4%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Maryland
Compensation and Benefits Managers
- Median
- $139,860
- p25
- $117,500
- p75
- $192,480
- p10
- $91,730
- p90
- $244,050
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 105.0
Massachusetts
Compensation and Benefits Managers
- Median
- $184,070
- p25
- $161,000
- p75
- $223,150
- p10
- $128,390
- p90
- $285,030
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 105.8
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.