State comparison · 2025
Cost Estimators salary: Massachusetts vs Pennsylvania
Cost Estimators in Massachusetts earn a median of $100,840. In Pennsylvania, $78,480. After cost-of-living, the gap is 18.5% — not 28.5%.
Nominal pay gap
+28.5%
Massachusetts vs Pennsylvania
COL-adjusted gap
+18.5%
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%
Pennsylvania
Cost Estimators
- Median
- $78,480
- p25
- $62,610
- p75
- $99,580
- p10
- $49,570
- p90
- $126,620
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 97.6
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -80%
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.