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What database administrators make
Typical
$85,000
Junior
$52,000
Senior
$127,000
Job Bank's national median is $40.87 an hour, about $85,000 a year full time. Job Bank pools this title with database analysts and data administrators (NOC, the National Occupational Classification, code 21223). Senior DBAs (database administrators) at banks and large government departments are at the top of this range or above it.