State comparison · 2025
Cost Estimators salary: Massachusetts vs Virginia
Cost Estimators in Massachusetts earn a median of $100,840. In Virginia, $80,530. After cost-of-living, the gap is 19.7% — not 25.2%.
Nominal pay gap
+25.2%
Massachusetts vs Virginia
COL-adjusted gap
+19.7%
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%
Virginia
Cost Estimators
- Median
- $80,530
- p25
- $62,600
- p75
- $100,830
- p10
- $49,820
- p90
- $129,330
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 101.1
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -47%
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.