State comparison · 2025
Database Architects salary: Iowa vs Massachusetts
Database Architects in Massachusetts earn a median of $161,650. In Iowa, $124,040. After cost-of-living, the gap is 7.5% — not 23.3%.
Nominal pay gap
-23.3%
Iowa vs Massachusetts
COL-adjusted gap
-7.5%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Iowa
Database Architects
- Median
- $124,040
- p25
- $98,210
- p75
- $143,440
- p10
- $78,660
- p90
- $159,790
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 87.8
- 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.