State comparison · 2025
Database Administrators salary: Idaho vs Massachusetts
Database Administrators in Massachusetts earn a median of $129,300. In Idaho, $85,660. After cost-of-living, the gap is 26.6% — not 33.8%.
Nominal pay gap
-33.8%
Idaho vs Massachusetts
COL-adjusted gap
-26.6%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Idaho
Database Administrators
- Median
- $85,660
- p25
- $64,630
- p75
- $113,910
- p10
- $50,460
- p90
- $138,930
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 95.5
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -86%
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.