State comparison · 2025
Database Administrators salary: Idaho vs New Jersey
Database Administrators in New Jersey earn a median of $125,860. In Idaho, $85,660. After cost-of-living, the gap is 22.5% — not 31.9%.
Nominal pay gap
-31.9%
Idaho vs New Jersey
COL-adjusted gap
-22.5%
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%
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.