State comparison · 2025
Cost Estimators salary: Massachusetts vs South Carolina
Cost Estimators in Massachusetts earn a median of $100,840. In South Carolina, $70,260. After cost-of-living, the gap is 27.1% — not 43.5%.
Nominal pay gap
+43.5%
Massachusetts vs South Carolina
COL-adjusted gap
+27.1%
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%
South Carolina
Cost Estimators
- Median
- $70,260
- p25
- $57,170
- p75
- $92,830
- p10
- $46,970
- p90
- $119,590
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 93.7
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- +75%
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.