State comparison · 2025
Cost Estimators salary: Massachusetts vs Tennessee
Cost Estimators in Massachusetts earn a median of $100,840. In Tennessee, $75,650. After cost-of-living, the gap is 15.8% — not 33.3%.
Nominal pay gap
+33.3%
Massachusetts vs Tennessee
COL-adjusted gap
+15.8%
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%
Tennessee
Cost Estimators
- Median
- $75,650
- p25
- $60,460
- p75
- $98,070
- p10
- $42,440
- p90
- $120,990
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 91.9
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- 0%
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.