State comparison · 2025
Database Administrators salary: Alabama vs Utah
Database Administrators in Utah earn a median of $135,750. In Alabama, $93,900. After cost-of-living, the gap is 23% — not 30.8%.
Nominal pay gap
-30.8%
Alabama vs Utah
COL-adjusted gap
-23%
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%
Utah
Database Administrators
- Median
- $135,750
- p25
- $100,860
- p75
- $135,750
- p10
- $75,450
- p90
- $149,950
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 98.9
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- +18%
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.