Compliance Officers
Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metropolitan area. Estimated employment 10,920.
Where you sit in the distribution
That is the median — half of compliance officers in Boston earn more.
$103,940 in Boston buys what $96,000 buys across the country as a whole.
Boston's regional price parity is 108.3 — well above the national average — a dollar here buys noticeably less than in the US as a whole. Adjusted figures for other metros are in the nearby-metros table below.
What comes next
Median offered base pay by seniority for Compliance Officers in Boston, classified from job titles on visa filings.
The same job, elsewhere in Massachusetts
Adjusted figures apply each metro's regional price parity, so the columns are directly comparable.
| Metro area | Median | Adjusted | RPP | vs. Boston |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boston This page | $103,940 | $96,000 | 108.3 | — |
| Worcester | $91,730 | $89,500 | 102.5 | −6.8% |
| Springfield | $84,820 | $88,300 | 96.1 | −8.0% |
| Pittsfield | $83,460 | $87,800 | 95.1 | −8.6% |
| Barnstable Town | $79,290 | $80,600 | 98.4 | −16.0% |
| Amherst Town | $77,550 | $77,400 | 100.2 | −19.4% |
Price parity and difference against Boston are in the full table on wider screens.
How this page was made
- Wage data
- Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 release. Public domain.
- Price parity
- Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Price Parities, 2024.
- Career ladder
- Seniority classified from job titles on the same visa filings; levels shown only with five or more filings each and a strictly rising progression.
- Employment
- 10,920 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
- Occupation
- SOC 13-1041, Compliance Officers. Mapped to our taxonomy as compliance-officers.
Percentiles are reported exactly as released and are never interpolated between published values. We take no payment from employers, recruiters or anyone else for how any figure is presented.