Turnover Cost: Database Administrators, Minnesota (2025)

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

Estimated cost of turnover

Database Administrators · Minnesota, United States

$51,200 – $204,900estimated range, 2025-may

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Estimated from a U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics annual mean wage of $102,430 for Database Administrators in Minnesota, 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 Minnesota, 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

$102,430 is the annual mean wage earned by Database Administrators in Minnesota, per the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The estimated cost to replace one ranges from $51,200 to $204,900, using SHRM's 50 to 200 percent replacement-cost multiple applied to that wage. Your organization's actual replacement cost depends on vacancy duration, how quickly new hires become productive, and lost productivity during the search.

Estimated cost of turnover: Database Administrators vs regional average

Estimated cost of turnover in Minnesota, United States, 2025-may. Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
MeasureDatabase AdministratorsRegional average
Estimated cost of turnover$102,430$86,308