State comparison · 2025
Optometrists salary: Michigan vs North Carolina
Optometrists in North Carolina earn a median of $161,560. In Michigan, $135,650. After cost-of-living, the gap is 17.7% — not 16%.
Nominal pay gap
-16%
Michigan vs North Carolina
COL-adjusted gap
-17.7%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Michigan
Optometrists
- Median
- $135,650
- p25
- $125,000
- p75
- $161,970
- p10
- $98,110
- p90
- $213,850
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 96.2
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- +100%
North Carolina
Optometrists
- Median
- $161,560
- p25
- $123,250
- p75
- $193,790
- p10
- $94,320
- p90
- $215,340
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 94.3
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- +100%
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.