State comparison · 2025
Cost Estimators salary: Massachusetts vs Minnesota
Cost Estimators in Massachusetts earn a median of $100,840. In Minnesota, $80,810. After cost-of-living, the gap is 16.3% — not 24.8%.
Nominal pay gap
+24.8%
Massachusetts vs Minnesota
COL-adjusted gap
+16.3%
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%
Minnesota
Cost Estimators
- Median
- $80,810
- p25
- $65,330
- p75
- $99,510
- p10
- $56,640
- p90
- $125,370
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 98.6
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.