State comparison · 2025
Database Architects salary: Kentucky vs Massachusetts
Database Architects in Massachusetts earn a median of $161,650. In Kentucky, $125,400. After cost-of-living, the gap is 9% — not 22.4%.
Nominal pay gap
-22.4%
Kentucky vs Massachusetts
COL-adjusted gap
-9%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Kentucky
Database Architects
- Median
- $125,400
- p25
- $101,410
- p75
- $145,760
- p10
- $74,140
- p90
- $173,110
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 90.2
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -17%
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.