State comparison · 2025
Database Administrators salary: Kansas vs New Jersey
Database Administrators in New Jersey earn a median of $125,860. In Kansas, $100,170. After cost-of-living, the gap is 3.9% — not 20.4%.
Nominal pay gap
-20.4%
Kansas vs New Jersey
COL-adjusted gap
-3.9%
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%
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.