State comparison · 2025
Database Administrators salary: Arkansas vs New Jersey
Database Administrators in New Jersey earn a median of $125,860. In Arkansas, $82,480. After cost-of-living, the gap is 18% — not 34.5%.
Nominal pay gap
-34.5%
Arkansas vs New Jersey
COL-adjusted gap
-18%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Arkansas
Database Administrators
- Median
- $82,480
- p25
- $71,650
- p75
- $108,420
- p10
- $53,690
- p90
- $127,850
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 86.9
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -29%
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.