Database Administrators in Rhode Island
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$79,732
after federal, FICA and Rhode Island tax
Tax takes
$26,288
24.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$78,621
Rhode Island costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Rhode Island — roughly, since only five points along the band are published.
One filer, standard deduction, no dependants and nothing paid in before tax — the same household the rest of this page uses, so the comparison holds. City and school-district income taxes are not included.
Median here
$106,020
Kept after tax
$79,732
Worth in national money
$78,621
State rank
16
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Rhode Island pays database administrators a middle wage of $106,020, ranking 16 of 51 states and sitting about 1.34% above the national middle.
- Within Rhode Island this is well-paid work. Of 452 occupations with published figures in the state, database administrators ranks 50 — in the top quarter of everything people do there.
- Prices here sit close to the national average, so the adjustment changes little. From $106,020 the take-home is $79,732, which is worth about $78,621 in comparable money. Tax does most of the work here, not cost of living. The average is lower, $105,860, so pay clusters nearer the top than usual.
- Rhode Island's median for database administrators is $106,020, about 1.34% above the national figure and 16 of 51 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Ranked against every occupation Rhode Island publishes a median for, database administrators sits 50 of 452 — the upper quartile of the state's wage distribution. National standing and within-state standing are separate questions, and a job can occupy very different positions on each.
- Rhode Island's price level is near the national average, so price deflation is close to neutral for database administrators on its $106,020 median: $79,732 retained after tax becomes $78,621 in national-average terms. Where the price adjustment is small, the tax stack is the dominant determinant of the real outcome. The mean of $105,860 falls below the median, a left skew that is uncommon in wage data.
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Pay band: Database Administrators
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $63,430 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $106,020 |
| Top tenth earn over | $154,860 |
| This salary | $106,020 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
The same pay, somewhere else
The state median for this job
| Take-home in Rhode Island | $79,732 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $83,415 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$7,219 |
State income tax and state price levels only. No city income tax, and no housing market.
What you would need there
The state median for this job
| To match take-home only | $100,784 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$9,971 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 101 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Rhode Island earn less than $106,020. The published range is $63,430 up to $154,860, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Rhode Island's $79,732, worked from $106,020. That is on purpose. It lets states be compared with each other, not with each other's family circumstances. Local city taxes are left out. Locally this work ranks 50 of 452.
- Two cautions on $78,621, the adjusted value of that $106,020 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Rhode Island. No actual address matches that. The wage figures and price figures are also from different years. Each is published on its own timetable. This work sits at 50 of 452 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for database administrators in Rhode Island the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $63,430 to $154,860. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Rhode Island take-home of $79,732, on $106,020 for work ranking 50 of 452 locally, models the simplest household deliberately: holding it constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful. It also means the absolute figure overstates liability for most real filers, and municipal income taxes are outside the model entirely. The occupation ranks 50 of 452 in the state.
- This $78,621 adjusted figure, worked from $106,020, rests on a state-level price parity averaging over within-state dispersion larger than much of the between-state dispersion. Wage and price vintages differ by publication schedule. The result is directionally sound and not address-specific, for work at 50 of 452 in the state. The occupation ranks 50 of 452 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
The label is broader than the work. From $63,430 at the bottom tenth to $154,860 at the top, the same title covers roles that share little beyond a name.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
The number and the value are different things. Rhode Island costs more than the national average, so this take-home stretches like $78,621 rather than its face figure.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Into four separate taxes, not one. Federal income tax, Social Security and Medicare apply everywhere, and Rhode Island adds its own income tax on top — which is why $79,732 of this wage survives to your account.
Can I compare this job across every state?
This occupation is published everywhere — all 51 of them — so comparing states measures real differences rather than gaps in the data.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($63,430) and the ninetieth ($154,860) exceeds the family median dispersion. SOC codes aggregate roles differing in seniority, industry and specialisation, and BLS does not disaggregate below the detailed occupation level, so within-title variance is not separable from the published series.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Rhode Island's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $78,621 in national-average terms. ⚠️ RPPs are an all-items index; housing parities vary far more widely than the headline figure.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $79,732 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Rhode Island income tax for a single filer with no adjustments. The state layer is levied in addition to the federal one; only its rate and base differ between states.
Is this occupation's state coverage complete?
State-level estimates are published for all 51 jurisdictions for this occupation, so cross-state comparison is not confounded by suppression. ⚠️ Estimates remain survey-based and carry sampling error; small differences between adjacent states should not be over-read.