State comparison · 2025
Cost Estimators salary: Massachusetts vs New Mexico
Cost Estimators in Massachusetts earn a median of $100,840. In New Mexico, $67,590. After cost-of-living, the gap is 30% — not 49.2%.
Nominal pay gap
+49.2%
Massachusetts vs New Mexico
COL-adjusted gap
+30%
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 Mexico
Cost Estimators
- Median
- $67,590
- p25
- $49,000
- p75
- $82,990
- p10
- $38,960
- p90
- $109,610
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 92.2
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.