State comparison · 2025
Cost Estimators salary: Massachusetts vs North Carolina
Cost Estimators in Massachusetts earn a median of $100,840. In North Carolina, $74,730. After cost-of-living, the gap is 20.3% — not 34.9%.
Nominal pay gap
+34.9%
Massachusetts vs North Carolina
COL-adjusted gap
+20.3%
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%
North Carolina
Cost Estimators
- Median
- $74,730
- p25
- $57,680
- p75
- $94,320
- p10
- $43,580
- p90
- $123,240
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 94.3
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -20%
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.