State comparison · 2025
Database Architects salary: Georgia vs Virginia
Database Architects in Virginia earn a median of $160,360. In Georgia, $139,500. After cost-of-living, the gap is 8.7% — not 13%.
Nominal pay gap
-13%
Georgia vs Virginia
COL-adjusted gap
-8.7%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Georgia
Database Architects
- Median
- $139,500
- p25
- $127,870
- p75
- $172,030
- p10
- $102,400
- p90
- $187,410
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 96.3
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -28%
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.