State comparison · 2025
Physicists salary: Missouri vs New Hampshire
Physicists in New Hampshire earn a median of $214,030. In Missouri, $140,460. After cost-of-living, the gap is 24.7% — not 34.4%.
Nominal pay gap
-34.4%
Missouri vs New Hampshire
COL-adjusted gap
-24.7%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Missouri
Physicists
- Median
- $140,460
- p25
- $96,720
- p75
- $227,810
- p10
- $70,550
- p90
- $276,590
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 90.8
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- 0%
New Hampshire
Physicists
- Median
- $214,030
- p25
- $145,220
- p75
- $267,600
- p10
- $96,760
- p90
- $301,570
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 104.2
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- 0%
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.