State comparison · 2025
Database Architects salary: Kentucky vs Virginia
Database Architects in Virginia earn a median of $160,360. In Kentucky, $125,400. After cost-of-living, the gap is 12.4% — not 21.8%.
Nominal pay gap
-21.8%
Kentucky vs Virginia
COL-adjusted gap
-12.4%
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%
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.