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Database Architects

SOC 15-1243 · 2024-2034

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.

How the U.S. Department of Labor describes this work. Published in English only.

What California expects of this job

Typical pay in California
$174,923per year
Projected openings
3,880
Projected change
+9.5%
Usually needs
Bachelor's degree

Bright Outlook — a U.S. Department of Labor designation
Rapid Growth

The Department's own designation, made from its national projections. It is not this project's assessment and it is not California's: every other figure on this page comes from California's projection, which can point the other way and for some occupations does.

Skills this work uses most

O*NET, the U.S. Department of Labor's occupation database, rates how important each of these is to this work, and they are listed in that order, most important first. The ratings themselves are not shown, because the data carries the number without the scale it was measured on. The names are as published, in English.

  1. Judgment and Decision Making
  2. Critical Thinking
  3. Reading Comprehension
  4. Complex Problem Solving
  5. Systems Analysis
  6. Speaking

Pay by region

RegionTypical pay in CaliforniaProjected openings
San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City MD (San Francisco and San Mateo Counties)$183,787640
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara MSA (San Benito and Santa Clara Counties)$170,727640
Oakland-Fremont-Berkeley MD (Alameda and Contra Costa Counties)$170,335350
Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom MSA (El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento, and Yolo Counties)$158,339120
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale MD (Los Angeles County)$149,740770
Anaheim-Santa Ana-Irvine MD (Orange County)$146,102350
Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura MSA (Ventura County)$141,76120
San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad MSA (San Diego County)$141,740270
Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario MSA (Riverside and San Bernardino Counties)$131,735100

What the pay actually ranges across

The lowest-paid tenth earn under
$104,033
A quarter earn under
$136,600
Half earn under
$174,923
Three quarters earn under
$208,816
The highest-paid tenth earn over
$234,280

A median is one point. These are the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics' 2026 figures for California, and they say how far apart the people doing this job actually are. Read them as the spread across everyone already in the work — not as a starting wage and not as a promise about where anyone lands.

Similar work

O*NET, the U.S. Department of Labor's occupation database, names these as occupations involving work similar to this one — its own reading of the job, not a grouping by code. They keep O*NET's order, and only those California publishes a projection for are shown.

OccupationTypical pay in CaliforniaProjected openingsProjected change
Software Developers$179,292207,260+18.4%
Database Administrators$116,2253,800+1.4%
Computer Occupations, All Other$138,20359,320+11.1%
Computer Systems Analysts$131,29541,500+9.7%
Data Scientists$145,55440,180+37.1%
Network and Computer Systems Administrators$109,42011,510-4.5%

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