State comparison · 2025
Database Architects salary: Kansas vs Massachusetts
Database Architects in Massachusetts earn a median of $161,650. In Kansas, $129,990. After cost-of-living, the gap is 5.6% — not 19.6%.
Nominal pay gap
-19.6%
Kansas vs Massachusetts
COL-adjusted gap
-5.6%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Kansas
Database Architects
- Median
- $129,990
- p25
- $101,710
- p75
- $139,940
- p10
- $81,790
- p90
- $165,330
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 90.1
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -10%
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.