State comparison · 2025
Database Architects salary: Missouri vs Virginia
Database Architects in Virginia earn a median of $160,360. In Missouri, $110,570. After cost-of-living, the gap is 23.2% — not 31%.
Nominal pay gap
-31%
Missouri vs Virginia
COL-adjusted gap
-23.2%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Missouri
Database Architects
- Median
- $110,570
- p25
- $80,600
- p75
- $139,310
- p10
- $64,420
- p90
- $166,610
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 90.8
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -30%
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.