State comparison · 2025
Cost Estimators salary: Massachusetts vs Wisconsin
Cost Estimators in Massachusetts earn a median of $100,840. In Wisconsin, $76,270. After cost-of-living, the gap is 17.6% — not 32.2%.
Nominal pay gap
+32.2%
Massachusetts vs Wisconsin
COL-adjusted gap
+17.6%
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%
Wisconsin
Cost Estimators
- Median
- $76,270
- p25
- $60,540
- p75
- $93,960
- p10
- $50,890
- p90
- $111,530
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 94.1
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.