State comparison · 2025
Cost Estimators salary: Massachusetts vs Texas
Cost Estimators in Massachusetts earn a median of $100,840. In Texas, $76,980. After cost-of-living, the gap is 20.2% — not 31%.
Nominal pay gap
+31%
Massachusetts vs Texas
COL-adjusted gap
+20.2%
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%
Texas
Cost Estimators
- Median
- $76,980
- p25
- $58,970
- p75
- $100,580
- p10
- $45,760
- p90
- $132,310
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 97.1
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -52%
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.