State comparison · 2025
Database Architects salary: Illinois vs Massachusetts
Database Architects in Massachusetts earn a median of $161,650. In Illinois, $142,500. After cost-of-living, the gap is 6.7% — not 11.8%.
Nominal pay gap
-11.8%
Illinois vs Massachusetts
COL-adjusted gap
-6.7%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Illinois
Database Architects
- Median
- $142,500
- p25
- $122,340
- p75
- $167,870
- p10
- $97,820
- p90
- $193,950
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 100.0
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -31%
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.