Turnover Cost: Database Administrators, Iowa (2025)

Verified cost of employee turnover for the selected Database Administrators population in Iowa, United States, drawn from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (2025-may).

Estimated cost of turnover

Database Administrators · Iowa, United States

$51,700 – $206,800estimated range, 2025-may

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Estimated from a U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics annual mean wage of $103,420 for Database Administrators in Iowa, United States (2025-may), multiplied by the 0.5×–2× cost of replacing an employee reported by SHRM and Gallup. The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes the wage, not the cost — the range is a planning estimate, and a real figure depends on time-to-fill, ramp-up, and lost productivity.

How Database Administrators compares in Iowa, United States

Annual mean wage — the input to the estimate above, compared directly rather than as a derived range. See all 33 industries.

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What this means

Iowa's Database Administrators earn an annual mean wage of $103,420 according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Replacing one carries an estimated cost of $51,700 to $206,800, using SHRM's 50 to 200 percent replacement-cost multiple applied to that wage. Actual costs vary by time-to-fill, ramp-up speed, and lost productivity during the transition.

Estimated cost of turnover: Database Administrators vs regional average

Estimated cost of turnover in Iowa, United States, 2025-may. Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
MeasureDatabase AdministratorsRegional average
Estimated cost of turnover$103,420$75,472

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