State comparison · 2025
Project Management Specialists salary: Minnesota vs New Jersey
Project Management Specialists in New Jersey earn a median of $122,980. In Minnesota, $97,860. After cost-of-living, the gap is 12.2% — not 20.4%.
Nominal pay gap
-20.4%
Minnesota vs New Jersey
COL-adjusted gap
-12.2%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Minnesota
Project Management Specialists
- Median
- $97,860
- p25
- $79,000
- p75
- $123,080
- p10
- $65,040
- p90
- $141,490
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 98.6
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -55%
New Jersey
Project Management Specialists
- Median
- $122,980
- p25
- $92,850
- p75
- $155,490
- p10
- $74,410
- p90
- $190,600
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 108.8
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -61%
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.