State comparison · 2025
Database Architects salary: Delaware vs Massachusetts
Database Architects in Massachusetts earn a median of $161,650. In Delaware, $147,800. After cost-of-living, the gap is 3.1% — not 8.6%.
Nominal pay gap
-8.6%
Delaware vs Massachusetts
COL-adjusted gap
-3.1%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Delaware
Database Architects
- Median
- $147,800
- p25
- $130,120
- p75
- $159,410
- p10
- $83,370
- p90
- $160,860
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 99.8
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -18%
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.