
Salary Report - SQL Server - DBA, Engineer - USA - 5 Years and 2 Months
Salary Report
Information Technology Job
Microsoft SQL Server
Database Professional
United States Location
United States of America
Nationwide
Metropolitan Areas
Competitive Position® Salary Report
Salary Average
$82,233
Experience Requirement
5 Years and 2 Months
Raise +1 Year
$3,159 at 3.84%
Salary and Number of Jobs

About Salary and Jobs
Salary Range :
At required Experience of 5 Years & 2 Months: $82,233 is Salary average; 50% of Jobs pay between $69,910 & $94,557; and, 5% of Jobs top $112,289.
Number of Jobs :
Most Jobs are available closest to the Salary Average.
Fewer Jobs are available at Lower and Higher Salaries.
Salary End Points :
$15,080 = minimum wage annual salary in the USA.
$187,699 = annual salary for the highest paying IT Job in the USA at the Top 2.5% Experience and Top 2.5% Salary.
Top Salaries
Top Percentile of Job market | Top Salary |
---|---|
2.5% | $118,049 |
5% | $112,289 |
10% | $105,650 |
25% | $94,557 |
33% | $90,103 |
50% | $82,233 |
Top Percentile of Job Market =
Number of Jobs Above the Top Salary
÷
Number of all Jobs at 5 Years and 2 Months Experience.
Salary Range and Jobs
Percentage of Jobs within Salary Lows and Highs
Percent of Job Market | Salary Range | |
---|---|---|
Low Salary | High Salary | |
10% | $79,937 | $84,529 |
25% | $76,411 | $88,055 |
33% | $74,363 | $90,103 |
50% | $69,910 | $94,557 |
67% | $64,557 | $99,909 |
95% | $46,418 | $118,049 |
Salary Average =
$82,233
Mid Point between each Low/High pair.
Percent of Job Market =
Number of Jobs with Salary between Low/High pair
÷
Number of all Jobs at 5 Years and 2 Months Experience.
Salary and Experience

Salary ±1 Year
Experience | Salary Average | Raise +1 Year |
---|---|---|
4 Years and 2 Months | $78,513 | $3,720 at 4.74% |
5 Years and 2 Months | $82,233 | $3,159 at 3.84% |
6 Years and 2 Months | $85,393 | $2,746 at 3.22% |
About Salary and Experience
Salary by Year :
Salary is lowest at entry level, increases rapidly with the first years of experience and approaches a ceiling as experience matures.
Salary and Experience Range :
Salary average rises with experience: $60,243 at the low experience of 1 Year and 2 Months; $81,065 at the average experience of 4 Years and 10 Months; and, $91,318 at the top experience of 8 Years and 6 Months.
Experience End Points :
0 = Entry Level.
11 Years and 1 Month = Top 2.5% Experience in the IT Job with the highest required experience in the USA.
Salary by Year
Experience | Salary Average | Raise +1 Year |
---|---|---|
2 Years | $67,085 | $6,048 at 9.02% |
3 Years | $73,133 | $4,691 at 6.41% |
4 Years | $77,824 | $3,833 at 4.93% |
5 Years | $81,657 | $3,241 at 3.97% |
6 Years | $84,898 | $2,807 at 3.31% |
7 Years | $87,705 | $2,476 at 2.82% |
8 Years | $90,181 | $2,215 at 2.46% |
Salary and Experience Range
95% of Jobs require Experience between the Low and Top
Experience | Salary Average | Raise +1 Year | |
---|---|---|---|
Low | 1 Year and 2 Months | $60,243 | $7,978 at 13.24% |
Average | 4 Years and 10 Months | $81,065 | $3,326 at 4.1% |
Top | 8 Years and 6 Months | $91,318 | $2,104 at 2.3% |
Qualifications
Description
This position involves database administration and architecture often focusing on data warehousing, data modeling and enterprise data integration in addition to installing, configuring, monitoring, maintaining, backing-up, performance tuning, testing, upgrading, implementing enhancements, recovering from disasters and establishing security for databases.
Skills
The qualifications of this information technology Job:
- Microsoft SQL Server;
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- Database Administrator,
- Database Administrator, Database Architect, Database Engineer, Data Modeling or Physical and/or Logical Database Design.
Characteristics
A+ Skills
Additional IT skills and US Cities requested in some job descriptions:
- Manager,
- 8% of job descriptions,
- Project Leader, Project Manager, Supervisor, Team Leader or Technical Lead;
- Graduate Degree,
- 5% of job descriptions,
- Master of Science in Computer Engineering, Master of Science in Computer Science, Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, MA/MS in Information Technology, MA/MS in Information Science, Master of Arts Degree, Master of Science Degree or Ph.D.;
- Extraction, Transformation and Loading (ETL),
- 20% of job descriptions;
- Online Application Programing (OLAP),
- 12% of job descriptions;
- SAP Crystal Reports,
- 7% of job descriptions;
- EMC NetWorker,
- 3% of job descriptions;
- Microsoft C#,
- 15% of job descriptions;
- Finance Industry,
- 14% of job descriptions,
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Asset Management, Banking, Brokerage, Commodity Trading, Derivative Trading, Equity Trading, Financial, Insurance, Investment, Securities Trading, Stock Market or Wall Street
with
Business, Company, Corporation, Enterprise, Firm or Industry; - Financial Trading System,
- 1% of job descriptions,
- Bloomberg, MarketData, Trading Application, Trading Platform, Trading Software, Trading Solution or Trading System;
- Health Care Industry,
- 9% of job descriptions,
-
Health Care, Hospital or Medical
with
Business, Company, Corporation, Enterprise, Firm or Industry; - Los Angeles-Riverside-Orange County, CA,
- 11% of jobs;
- New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT-PA,
- 10% of jobs.
Location
United States of America