Database Administrator IV pay range
State of Texas · class code 0214
- Class code
- 0214
- Pay group
- B27
- Pay unit
- Year
- State
- Texas
- The State of Texas published pay range for Database Administrator IV is $84,182 to $142,374 per year.
- Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts and the State Auditor's Office keys this classification as class code 0214.
- This is the range the plan authorises, not the salary of any individual employee.
Class specification
Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts and the State Auditor's Office publishes one State Auditor's Office job description (series) for the Database Administrator series, which includes this class. The passages below are quoted from it as published, not paraphrased, and cut to their opening sentences; the full specification is the authority on duties and qualifications.
What the state says the job is
Performs database administration work involving developing, maintaining, and monitoring integrated database systems; implementing database procedures; and maintaining data integrity.
How it differs from neighbouring classes
The Database Administrator job classification series is intended for employees who develop and maintain computer databases. Employees typically perform work that includes designing, configuring, and managing databases to ensure the integrity, security and accessibility of the agency's data. Database administrators make sure that data analysts and other users can easily use databases to find the information they need and that systems perform as they should.
Examples of the work
Supports migrations to new data management system software levels and tests the migrations to ensure data reliability and functionality. Executes procedures necessary to save, retrieve, and recover databases from hardware and software failures. Maintains data standards. Prepares and develops database documentation, procedures, and definitions for data dictionaries. Performs logical and physical data modeling, designs relational database models, and creates physical data models from logical data models. Creates test database environments, including necessary libraries and procedures. Performs related work as assigned.
Quoted from the State Auditor's Office job description (series), read 2026-10-21.
Where this comes from
Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts and the State Auditor's Office publishes this figure in Classification Salary Schedule for Fiscal 2026-27, joined to the State's Position Classification Plan (SAO report 25-701). Every number on this page is read from that document; nothing is estimated, modelled or averaged.
Job titles and their pay groups come from the State's Position Classification Plan, joined to the salary schedule.