State comparison · 2025
Cost Estimators salary: Massachusetts vs Montana
Cost Estimators in Massachusetts earn a median of $100,840. In Montana, $77,320. After cost-of-living, the gap is 16.6% — not 30.4%.
Nominal pay gap
+30.4%
Massachusetts vs Montana
COL-adjusted gap
+16.6%
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%
Montana
Cost Estimators
- Median
- $77,320
- p25
- $62,130
- p75
- $91,990
- p10
- $50,120
- p90
- $106,740
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 94.6
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.