State comparison · 2025
Database Architects salary: Idaho vs Massachusetts
Database Architects in Massachusetts earn a median of $161,650. In Idaho, $121,380. After cost-of-living, the gap is 16.8% — not 24.9%.
Nominal pay gap
-24.9%
Idaho vs Massachusetts
COL-adjusted gap
-16.8%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Idaho
Database Architects
- Median
- $121,380
- p25
- $99,500
- p75
- $163,790
- p10
- $79,140
- p90
- $187,440
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 95.5
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -33%
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.