State comparison · 2025
Cost Estimators salary: Massachusetts vs South Dakota
Cost Estimators in Massachusetts earn a median of $100,840. In South Dakota, $74,950. After cost-of-living, the gap is 12.7% — not 34.5%.
Nominal pay gap
+34.5%
Massachusetts vs South Dakota
COL-adjusted gap
+12.7%
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 Dakota
Cost Estimators
- Median
- $74,950
- p25
- $60,740
- p75
- $92,710
- p10
- $57,110
- p90
- $129,560
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 88.6
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.