State comparison · 2025
Database Architects salary: Kansas vs Virginia
Database Architects in Virginia earn a median of $160,360. In Kansas, $129,990. After cost-of-living, the gap is 9% — not 18.9%.
Nominal pay gap
-18.9%
Kansas vs Virginia
COL-adjusted gap
-9%
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%
Virginia
Database Architects
- Median
- $160,360
- p25
- $125,540
- p75
- $176,610
- p10
- $105,210
- p90
- $210,160
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 101.1
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -53%
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.