State comparison · 2025
Cost Estimators salary: Massachusetts vs Michigan
Cost Estimators in Massachusetts earn a median of $100,840. In Michigan, $77,990. After cost-of-living, the gap is 17.6% — not 29.3%.
Nominal pay gap
+29.3%
Massachusetts vs Michigan
COL-adjusted gap
+17.6%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
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%
Michigan
Cost Estimators
- Median
- $77,990
- p25
- $62,060
- p75
- $100,660
- p10
- $46,660
- p90
- $125,520
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 96.2
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -29%
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.