State comparison · 2025
Cost Estimators salary: Massachusetts vs Nebraska
Cost Estimators in Massachusetts earn a median of $100,840. In Nebraska, $73,100. After cost-of-living, the gap is 17.5% — not 37.9%.
Nominal pay gap
+37.9%
Massachusetts vs Nebraska
COL-adjusted gap
+17.5%
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%
Nebraska
Cost Estimators
- Median
- $73,100
- p25
- $58,030
- p75
- $86,770
- p10
- $50,040
- p90
- $105,640
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 90.1
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.