State comparison · 2025
Cost Estimators salary: Massachusetts vs North Dakota
Cost Estimators in Massachusetts earn a median of $100,840. In North Dakota, $73,280. After cost-of-living, the gap is 15.8% — not 37.6%.
Nominal pay gap
+37.6%
Massachusetts vs North Dakota
COL-adjusted gap
+15.8%
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 Dakota
Cost Estimators
- Median
- $73,280
- p25
- $61,010
- p75
- $85,940
- p10
- $52,730
- p90
- $104,050
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 89.0
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.