State comparison · 2025
Database Administrators salary: Kentucky vs Massachusetts
Database Administrators in Massachusetts earn a median of $129,300. In Kentucky, $87,390. After cost-of-living, the gap is 20.7% — not 32.4%.
Nominal pay gap
-32.4%
Kentucky vs Massachusetts
COL-adjusted gap
-20.7%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Kentucky
Database Administrators
- Median
- $87,390
- p25
- $62,220
- p75
- $117,390
- p10
- $47,150
- p90
- $139,840
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 90.2
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -70%
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.