State comparison · 2025
Database Administrators salary: Connecticut vs New Jersey
Database Administrators in New Jersey earn a median of $125,860. In Connecticut, $108,270. After cost-of-living, the gap is 9.7% — not 14%.
Nominal pay gap
-14%
Connecticut vs New Jersey
COL-adjusted gap
-9.7%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Connecticut
Database Administrators
- Median
- $108,270
- p25
- $82,600
- p75
- $147,380
- p10
- $65,400
- p90
- $157,350
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 103.6
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -26%
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.