State comparison · 2025
Cost Estimators salary: Massachusetts vs Rhode Island
Cost Estimators in Massachusetts earn a median of $100,840. In Rhode Island, $81,990. After cost-of-living, the gap is 18.9% — not 23%.
Nominal pay gap
+23%
Massachusetts vs Rhode Island
COL-adjusted gap
+18.9%
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%
Rhode Island
Cost Estimators
- Median
- $81,990
- p25
- $69,470
- p75
- $98,100
- p10
- $60,180
- p90
- $130,740
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 102.3
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.