State comparison · 2025
Purchasing Managers salary: Massachusetts vs New Jersey
Purchasing Managers in New Jersey earn a median of $174,520. In Massachusetts, $170,750. After cost-of-living, the gap is 0.6% — not 2.2%.
Nominal pay gap
-2.2%
Massachusetts vs New Jersey
COL-adjusted gap
+0.6%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Massachusetts
Purchasing Managers
- Median
- $170,750
- p25
- $135,340
- p75
- $215,850
- p10
- $105,500
- p90
- $266,990
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 105.8
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -67%
New Jersey
Purchasing Managers
- Median
- $174,520
- p25
- $140,610
- p75
- $218,770
- p10
- $117,660
- p90
- $285,280
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 108.8
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -33%
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.