State comparison · 2025
Budget Analysts salary: Missouri vs Virginia
Budget Analysts in Virginia earn a median of $105,470. In Missouri, $81,980. After cost-of-living, the gap is 13.5% — not 22.3%.
Nominal pay gap
-22.3%
Missouri vs Virginia
COL-adjusted gap
-13.5%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Missouri
Budget Analysts
- Median
- $81,980
- p25
- $68,310
- p75
- $100,740
- p10
- $60,920
- p90
- $128,110
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 90.8
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- +100%
Virginia
Budget Analysts
- Median
- $105,470
- p25
- $84,590
- p75
- $133,490
- p10
- $70,610
- p90
- $156,750
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 101.1
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -71%
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.