State comparison · 2025
Database Architects salary: Alabama vs Massachusetts
Database Architects in Massachusetts earn a median of $161,650. In Alabama, $105,450. After cost-of-living, the gap is 22.3% — not 34.8%.
Nominal pay gap
-34.8%
Alabama vs Massachusetts
COL-adjusted gap
-22.3%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Alabama
Database Architects
- Median
- $105,450
- p25
- $92,170
- p75
- $139,510
- p10
- $78,400
- p90
- $172,890
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 88.8
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -75%
Massachusetts
Database Architects
- Median
- $161,650
- p25
- $134,740
- p75
- $183,610
- p10
- $123,670
- p90
- $220,910
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 105.8
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -41%
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.