State comparison · 2025
Database Administrators salary: Delaware vs Massachusetts
Database Administrators in Massachusetts earn a median of $129,300. In Delaware, $100,910. After cost-of-living, the gap is 17.3% — not 22%.
Nominal pay gap
-22%
Delaware vs Massachusetts
COL-adjusted gap
-17.3%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Delaware
Database Administrators
- Median
- $100,910
- p25
- $80,940
- p75
- $131,460
- p10
- $65,090
- p90
- $167,520
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 99.8
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -41%
Massachusetts
Database Administrators
- Median
- $129,300
- p25
- $93,280
- p75
- $158,010
- p10
- $69,380
- p90
- $173,210
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 105.8
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -33%
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.