State comparison · 2025
Sales Managers salary: Massachusetts vs Tennessee
Sales Managers in Massachusetts earn a median of $191,200. In Tennessee, $128,040. After cost-of-living, the gap is 29.7% — not 49.3%.
Nominal pay gap
+49.3%
Massachusetts vs Tennessee
COL-adjusted gap
+29.7%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Massachusetts
Sales Managers
- Median
- $191,200
- p25
- $141,040
- p75
- $235,420
- p10
- $100,510
- p90
- $321,000
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 105.8
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -12%
Tennessee
Sales Managers
- Median
- $128,040
- p25
- $90,920
- p75
- $173,500
- p10
- $67,220
- p90
- $231,830
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 91.9
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -20%
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.