State comparison · 2025
Actuaries salary: Missouri vs New York
Actuaries in New York earn a median of $156,480. In Missouri, $129,220. After cost-of-living, the gap is 1.9% — not 17.4%.
Nominal pay gap
-17.4%
Missouri vs New York
COL-adjusted gap
-1.9%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Missouri
Actuaries
- Median
- $129,220
- p25
- $94,430
- p75
- $173,000
- p10
- $77,780
- p90
- $207,080
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 90.8
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -29%
New York
Actuaries
- Median
- $156,480
- p25
- $106,140
- p75
- $211,330
- p10
- $82,250
- p90
- $277,800
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 107.9
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -68%
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.