State comparison · 2025
Cost Estimators salary: Massachusetts vs New York
Cost Estimators in Massachusetts earn a median of $100,840. In New York, $80,430. After cost-of-living, the gap is 27.9% — not 25.4%.
Nominal pay gap
+25.4%
Massachusetts vs New York
COL-adjusted gap
+27.9%
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 York
Cost Estimators
- Median
- $80,430
- p25
- $60,290
- p75
- $106,820
- p10
- $52,000
- p90
- $139,690
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 107.9
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -56%
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.