State comparison · 2025
Database Administrators salary: Illinois vs New Jersey
Database Administrators in New Jersey earn a median of $125,860. In Illinois, $104,650. After cost-of-living, the gap is 9.5% — not 16.9%.
Nominal pay gap
-16.9%
Illinois vs New Jersey
COL-adjusted gap
-9.5%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Illinois
Database Administrators
- Median
- $104,650
- p25
- $74,390
- p75
- $133,710
- p10
- $59,990
- p90
- $163,970
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 100.0
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -27%
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.