State comparison · 2025
Database Administrators salary: Kansas vs Massachusetts
Database Administrators in Massachusetts earn a median of $129,300. In Kansas, $100,170. After cost-of-living, the gap is 9% — not 22.5%.
Nominal pay gap
-22.5%
Kansas vs Massachusetts
COL-adjusted gap
-9%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Kansas
Database Administrators
- Median
- $100,170
- p25
- $77,440
- p75
- $135,430
- p10
- $65,170
- p90
- $159,650
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 90.1
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- +17%
Massachusetts
Database Administrators
- Median
- $129,300
- p25
- $93,280
- p75
- $158,010
- p10
- $69,380
- p90
- $173,210
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 105.8
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -33%
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.