State comparison · 2025
Cost Estimators salary: Massachusetts vs New Jersey
Cost Estimators in Massachusetts earn a median of $100,840. In New Jersey, $80,570. After cost-of-living, the gap is 28.7% — not 25.2%.
Nominal pay gap
+25.2%
Massachusetts vs New Jersey
COL-adjusted gap
+28.7%
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%
New Jersey
Cost Estimators
- Median
- $80,570
- p25
- $62,530
- p75
- $109,060
- p10
- $50,390
- p90
- $137,080
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 108.8
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -79%
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.