Database Architects

What do Database Architects do?

Design strategies for enterprise databases, data warehouse systems, and multidimensional networks. Set standards for database operations, programming, query processes, and security. Model, design, and construct large relational databases or data warehouses. Create and optimize data models for warehouse infrastructure and workflow. Integrate new systems with existing warehouse structure and refine system performance and functionality. Excludes “Database Administrators” (15-1242).

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, SOC 2018 (SOC 15-1243)

What our data shows for Database Architects

RoleHue publishes 316 salary records for Database Architects, across 17 cities. Weighted by how many records each city contributes, the band runs from $132,302 at the 25th percentile to $172,349 at the 75th, a spread of $40,047 around $148,901. 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 $148,901 figure rather than in dollars (27% of it), that spread is mid-pack among the roles we cover.

San Francisco, CA carries the highest median we hold for the role at $191,889; Irving, TX the lowest at $118,102, a gap of $73,787. The middle half of those city medians, weighted by how many records each city contributes, spans $40,706, wider than the $40,047 band within cities: for Database Architects, which metro a record comes from separates our numbers more than where a record sits within its own metro.

No single metro carries most of this: the largest share is New York, NY, with 33 of the 316 records we publish for this role (10%). Evidence clears 25 records in 2 of the 17 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 316 data points.

Top Paying Cities