State comparison · 2025
Compliance Officers salary: Massachusetts vs Virginia
Compliance Officers in Massachusetts earn a median of $102,060. In Virginia, $80,380. After cost-of-living, the gap is 21.3% — not 27%.
Nominal pay gap
+27%
Massachusetts vs Virginia
COL-adjusted gap
+21.3%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Massachusetts
Compliance Officers
- Median
- $102,060
- p25
- $78,390
- p75
- $130,230
- p10
- $63,340
- p90
- $161,920
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 105.8
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -53%
Virginia
Compliance Officers
- Median
- $80,380
- p25
- $61,570
- p75
- $104,970
- p10
- $48,640
- p90
- $133,620
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 101.1
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -80%
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.