State comparison · 2025
Purchasing Managers salary: Minnesota vs New Jersey
Purchasing Managers in New Jersey earn a median of $174,520. In Minnesota, $144,810. After cost-of-living, the gap is 8.4% — not 17%.
Nominal pay gap
-17%
Minnesota vs New Jersey
COL-adjusted gap
-8.4%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Minnesota
Purchasing Managers
- Median
- $144,810
- p25
- $118,190
- p75
- $175,470
- p10
- $95,200
- p90
- $216,480
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 98.6
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- 0%
New Jersey
Purchasing Managers
- Median
- $174,520
- p25
- $140,610
- p75
- $218,770
- p10
- $117,660
- p90
- $285,280
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 108.8
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -33%
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.