State comparison · 2025
Physicists salary: Massachusetts vs New Hampshire
Physicists in New Hampshire earn a median of $214,030. In Massachusetts, $106,410. After cost-of-living, the gap is 51% — not 50.3%.
Nominal pay gap
-50.3%
Massachusetts vs New Hampshire
COL-adjusted gap
-51%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Massachusetts
Physicists
- Median
- $106,410
- p25
- $82,070
- p75
- $170,190
- p10
- $82,050
- p90
- $213,150
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 105.8
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -46%
New Hampshire
Physicists
- Median
- $214,030
- p25
- $145,220
- p75
- $267,600
- p10
- $96,760
- p90
- $301,570
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 104.2
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- 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.