State comparison · 2025
Lawyers salary: Missouri vs New York
Lawyers in New York earn a median of $207,860. In Missouri, $133,450. After cost-of-living, the gap is 23.7% — not 35.8%.
Nominal pay gap
-35.8%
Missouri vs New York
COL-adjusted gap
-23.7%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Missouri
Lawyers
- Median
- $133,450
- p25
- $89,900
- p75
- $197,110
- p10
- $67,020
- p90
- $299,990
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 90.8
New York
Lawyers
- Median
- $207,860
- p25
- $127,580
- p75
- $322,120
- p10
- $85,200
- p90
- $391,420
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 107.9
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -47%
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.