State comparison · 2025
Database Architects salary: Colorado vs Massachusetts
Database Architects in Massachusetts earn a median of $161,650. In Colorado, $154,560. After cost-of-living, the gap is 1.9% — not 4.4%.
Nominal pay gap
-4.4%
Colorado vs Massachusetts
COL-adjusted gap
-1.9%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Colorado
Database Architects
- Median
- $154,560
- p25
- $122,150
- p75
- $168,110
- p10
- $88,000
- p90
- $195,510
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 103.1
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -35%
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.