State comparison · 2025
Cost Estimators salary: Massachusetts vs Missouri
Cost Estimators in Massachusetts earn a median of $100,840. In Missouri, $76,020. After cost-of-living, the gap is 13.8% — not 32.6%.
Nominal pay gap
+32.6%
Massachusetts vs Missouri
COL-adjusted gap
+13.8%
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%
Missouri
Cost Estimators
- Median
- $76,020
- p25
- $56,880
- p75
- $98,600
- p10
- $44,840
- p90
- $128,270
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 90.8
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -67%
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.