State comparison · 2025
Database Administrators salary: Kentucky vs New Jersey
Database Administrators in New Jersey earn a median of $125,860. In Kentucky, $87,390. After cost-of-living, the gap is 16.2% — not 30.6%.
Nominal pay gap
-30.6%
Kentucky vs New Jersey
COL-adjusted gap
-16.2%
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%
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.