State comparison · 2025
Database Administrators salary: Alabama vs New Jersey
Database Administrators in New Jersey earn a median of $125,860. In Alabama, $93,900. After cost-of-living, the gap is 8.6% — not 25.4%.
Nominal pay gap
-25.4%
Alabama vs New Jersey
COL-adjusted gap
-8.6%
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%
New Jersey
Database Administrators
- Median
- $125,860
- p25
- $94,020
- p75
- $159,880
- p10
- $69,080
- p90
- $176,130
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 108.8
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -39%
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.