State comparison · 2025
Compensation and Benefits Managers salary: Massachusetts vs New Jersey
Compensation and Benefits Managers in Massachusetts earn a median of $184,070. In New Jersey, $168,370. After cost-of-living, the gap is 12.4% — not 9.3%.
Nominal pay gap
+9.3%
Massachusetts vs New Jersey
COL-adjusted gap
+12.4%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Massachusetts
Compensation and Benefits Managers
- Median
- $184,070
- p25
- $161,000
- p75
- $223,150
- p10
- $128,390
- p90
- $285,030
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 105.8
New Jersey
Compensation and Benefits Managers
- Median
- $168,370
- p25
- $137,720
- p75
- $210,850
- p10
- $111,720
- p90
- $259,690
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 108.8
- 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.