State comparison · 2025
Cost Estimators salary: Maryland vs Massachusetts
Cost Estimators in Massachusetts earn a median of $100,840. In Maryland, $81,190. After cost-of-living, the gap is 18.9% — not 19.5%.
Nominal pay gap
-19.5%
Maryland vs Massachusetts
COL-adjusted gap
-18.9%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Maryland
Cost Estimators
- Median
- $81,190
- p25
- $63,080
- p75
- $106,360
- p10
- $50,660
- p90
- $130,970
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 105.0
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -37%
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.