State comparison · 2025
Cost Estimators salary: Massachusetts vs Ohio
Cost Estimators in Massachusetts earn a median of $100,840. In Ohio, $77,730. After cost-of-living, the gap is 13.8% — not 29.7%.
Nominal pay gap
+29.7%
Massachusetts vs Ohio
COL-adjusted gap
+13.8%
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%
Ohio
Cost Estimators
- Median
- $77,730
- p25
- $61,150
- p75
- $99,070
- p10
- $48,750
- p90
- $124,990
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 92.8
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -69%
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.