State comparison · 2025
Database Administrators salary: Minnesota vs New Jersey
Database Administrators in New Jersey earn a median of $125,860. In Minnesota, $100,700. After cost-of-living, the gap is 11.7% — not 20%.
Nominal pay gap
-20%
Minnesota vs New Jersey
COL-adjusted gap
-11.7%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Minnesota
Database Administrators
- Median
- $100,700
- p25
- $71,220
- p75
- $131,570
- p10
- $61,120
- p90
- $151,590
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 98.6
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -53%
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.