State comparison · 2025
Budget Analysts salary: Tennessee vs Virginia
Budget Analysts in Virginia earn a median of $105,470. In Tennessee, $86,570. After cost-of-living, the gap is 9.7% — not 17.9%.
Nominal pay gap
-17.9%
Tennessee vs Virginia
COL-adjusted gap
-9.7%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Tennessee
Budget Analysts
- Median
- $86,570
- p25
- $76,400
- p75
- $108,010
- p10
- $63,920
- p90
- $133,280
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 91.9
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.