Thank you for your help and time, as always.

My assignment is:

"Start exploring the following websites for the 'Salaries project.'https://www.aaup.org/faculty-compensation-survey-results-toolwebsite takes you to an interactive platform where you can find salaries at every university disaggregated by many categories, including different ranks.https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/cost-of-living-index-by-stateprovides the Cost of Living index for each state, andherehttps://www.thebalance.com/cost-of-living-define-calculate-compare-rank-3305737 might give you additional information on how COL is calculated. What we have to figure out is how to calculate/create an index that indicates the actual spending power of the salaries. Then based on that create a file in excel that generalize everything "

Then the last few days, they have added https://www.erieri.com/blog/post/analyzing-the-purchasing-power-of-salaries-using-cost-of-living-differentialsthislink. I think this is more helpful in finding the calculations.