Database Administrators

What do Database Administrators do?

Administer, test, and implement computer databases, applying knowledge of database management systems. Coordinate changes to computer databases. Identify, investigate, and resolve database performance issues, database capacity, and database scalability. May plan, coordinate, and implement security measures to safeguard computer databases. Excludes “Information Security Analysts” (15-1212) and “Database Architects” (15-1243).

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, SOC 2018 (SOC 15-1242)

What our data shows for Database Administrators

RoleHue publishes 525 salary records for Database Administrators, across 27 cities. Weighted by how many records each city contributes, the band runs from $99,931 at the 25th percentile to $147,159 at the 75th, a spread of $47,228 around $120,845. Each of those three figures averages the city-level percentiles rather than ranking the pooled records, and weights each city by how many records it holds, so the cities we hold most data for pull them hardest. Measured against that $120,845 figure rather than in dollars (39% of it), that spread is wider than 75% of the roles we cover.

San Jose, CA carries the highest median we hold for the role at $163,646; San Antonio, TX the lowest at $90,515, a gap of $73,131. The middle half of those city medians, weighted by how many records each city contributes, spans $25,276, narrower than the $47,228 band within cities: for Database Administrators, where a record sits within its own metro separates our numbers more than which metro it came from.

No single metro carries most of this: the largest share is New York, NY, with 57 of the 525 records we publish for this role (11%). Evidence clears 25 records in 6 of the 27 cities; for the rest, the city median we show rests on fewer records than that.

Salary Overview

Weighted average across all cities with available data. Based on 525 data points.

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