13. Missouri
Annual Salary: $80,600
Cost of living index: 90.4
Available jobs: 60
If you ever get a chance to land a biomedical engineering job in Missouri, you’re among the lucky ones. Its cost of living is one of the country’s lowest, and the pay is hovering near the average. Plus, Missouri has 88 hospitals including the top rankedBarnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University in St. Louis.

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