State comparison · 2025
Database Architects salary: Connecticut vs Massachusetts
Database Architects in Massachusetts earn a median of $161,650. In Connecticut, $144,460. After cost-of-living, the gap is 8.7% — not 10.6%.
Nominal pay gap
-10.6%
Connecticut vs Massachusetts
COL-adjusted gap
-8.7%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Connecticut
Database Architects
- Median
- $144,460
- p25
- $133,850
- p75
- $164,280
- p10
- $106,040
- p90
- $210,800
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 103.6
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -42%
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.