State comparison · 2025
Database Administrators salary: Delaware vs New Jersey
Database Administrators in New Jersey earn a median of $125,860. In Delaware, $100,910. After cost-of-living, the gap is 12.6% — not 19.8%.
Nominal pay gap
-19.8%
Delaware vs New Jersey
COL-adjusted gap
-12.6%
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%
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.