State comparison · 2025
Cost Estimators salary: Massachusetts vs Mississippi
Cost Estimators in Massachusetts earn a median of $100,840. In Mississippi, $71,230. After cost-of-living, the gap is 16.4% — not 41.6%.
Nominal pay gap
+41.6%
Massachusetts vs Mississippi
COL-adjusted gap
+16.4%
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%
Mississippi
Cost Estimators
- Median
- $71,230
- p25
- $52,060
- p75
- $91,570
- p10
- $41,600
- p90
- $118,040
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 87.0
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.