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SOC 15-1242, wage year 2025-26

Database Administrators prevailing wage by area

Short answer

Across 530 US areas, the median Level 1 prevailing wage for database administrators is $29.04 an hour ($60,393 a year) and the median Level 4 wage is $54.26 an hour ($112,861 a year). Pick an area below for all four levels.

Ten highest Level 2 wages

AreaLevel 1Level 2Level 3Level 4
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA$42.96$57.05$71.13$85.22
Merced, CA$38.87$52.58$66.29$80.00
Trenton-Princeton, NJ$43.27$51.16$59.06$66.95
San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA$37.15$49.14$61.14$73.13
New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ$37.23$48.67$60.10$71.54
Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA$36.51$48.41$60.31$72.21
Provo-Orem-Lehi, UT$36.90$48.16$59.43$70.69
Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD$36.21$48.13$60.04$71.96
Wenatchee-East Wenatchee, WA$36.31$48.06$59.82$71.57
Columbus, GA-AL$40.68$48.02$55.36$62.70

Hourly dollars. Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Foreign Labor Certification (OFLC), prevailing wage data, wage year 2025-26. An LCA is not an H-1B approval and not a job opening.

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