State comparison · 2025
Project Management Specialists salary: Missouri vs New Jersey
Project Management Specialists in New Jersey earn a median of $122,980. In Missouri, $94,660. After cost-of-living, the gap is 7.8% — not 23%.
Nominal pay gap
-23%
Missouri vs New Jersey
COL-adjusted gap
-7.8%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Missouri
Project Management Specialists
- Median
- $94,660
- p25
- $71,270
- p75
- $124,980
- p10
- $56,660
- p90
- $157,650
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 90.8
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -67%
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.