State comparison · 2025
Database Administrators salary: Colorado vs New Jersey
Database Administrators in New Jersey earn a median of $125,860. In Colorado, $118,340. After cost-of-living, the gap is 0.8% — not 6%.
Nominal pay gap
-6%
Colorado vs New Jersey
COL-adjusted gap
-0.8%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Colorado
Database Administrators
- Median
- $118,340
- p25
- $80,830
- p75
- $145,600
- p10
- $61,930
- p90
- $164,780
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 103.1
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -45%
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.