State comparison · 2025
Database Architects salary: Delaware vs Virginia
Database Architects in Virginia earn a median of $160,360. In Delaware, $147,800. After cost-of-living, the gap is 6.6% — not 7.8%.
Nominal pay gap
-7.8%
Delaware vs Virginia
COL-adjusted gap
-6.6%
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%
Virginia
Database Architects
- Median
- $160,360
- p25
- $125,540
- p75
- $176,610
- p10
- $105,210
- p90
- $210,160
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 101.1
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -53%
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.