State comparison · 2025
Database Administrators salary: Alabama vs Massachusetts
Database Administrators in Massachusetts earn a median of $129,300. In Alabama, $93,900. After cost-of-living, the gap is 13.5% — not 27.4%.
Nominal pay gap
-27.4%
Alabama vs Massachusetts
COL-adjusted gap
-13.5%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Alabama
Database Administrators
- Median
- $93,900
- p25
- $74,230
- p75
- $119,170
- p10
- $60,500
- p90
- $134,810
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 88.8
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -71%
Massachusetts
Database Administrators
- Median
- $129,300
- p25
- $93,280
- p75
- $158,010
- p10
- $69,380
- p90
- $173,210
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 105.8
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -33%
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.