State comparison · 2025
Physicists salary: Massachusetts vs Pennsylvania
Physicists in Pennsylvania earn a median of $210,990. In Massachusetts, $106,410. After cost-of-living, the gap is 53.5% — not 49.6%.
Nominal pay gap
-49.6%
Massachusetts vs Pennsylvania
COL-adjusted gap
-53.5%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Massachusetts
Physicists
- Median
- $106,410
- p25
- $82,070
- p75
- $170,190
- p10
- $82,050
- p90
- $213,150
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 105.8
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -46%
Pennsylvania
Physicists
- Median
- $210,990
- p25
- $150,950
- p75
- $231,190
- p10
- $88,300
- p90
- $261,820
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 97.6
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- +73%
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.