State comparison · 2025
Cost Estimators salary: Massachusetts vs Oregon
Cost Estimators in Massachusetts earn a median of $100,840. In Oregon, $80,460. After cost-of-living, the gap is 22.5% — not 25.3%.
Nominal pay gap
+25.3%
Massachusetts vs Oregon
COL-adjusted gap
+22.5%
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%
Oregon
Cost Estimators
- Median
- $80,460
- p25
- $62,010
- p75
- $112,130
- p10
- $49,970
- p90
- $133,460
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 103.4
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -67%
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.