State comparison · 2025
Physicists salary: Missouri vs Pennsylvania
Physicists in Pennsylvania earn a median of $210,990. In Missouri, $140,460. After cost-of-living, the gap is 28.4% — not 33.4%.
Nominal pay gap
-33.4%
Missouri vs Pennsylvania
COL-adjusted gap
-28.4%
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%
Pennsylvania
Physicists
- Median
- $210,990
- p25
- $150,950
- p75
- $231,190
- p10
- $88,300
- p90
- $261,820
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 97.6
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- +73%
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.