Computer and Information Systems Managers Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

The five rows are five different workers in the same occupation, from the 10th percentile ($104,450) to the 90th ($239,200 or more). BLS suppresses cells that fail its reliability rules (n/p here) and caps the highest wages at $239,200+ a year or $115.00+ an hour; in this ladder that top code appears at the very top rows only.

Employment and concentration

May 2024 employment stood at 645,970, or 0.42% of the U.S. total. California leads the state table with 100,020 jobs; the top three states sum to 33.4% of the occupation. The concentration measure tells the more interesting story: New Jersey posts a location quotient of 1.90, so a worker there is far more likely to meet a colleague in this field than the national pattern suggests.

BLS top-codes or suppresses part of this occupation's national ladder, so the published center is the median of $171,200 and the mean of $187,990. The state table below is the more useful negotiating document: it shows how far the same job title travels across the 51 states with published estimates.

Pay by state

Sorted by employment, the table below puts California first at 100,020 jobs; sorted by median pay instead, California would lead at $211,340. Both orderings are printed in one table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Computer and Information Systems Managers stands number 57 by employment and number 26 by median pay. Inside its own major group, Management Occupations, the group median wage is $106,980 across 38 detailed occupations, so this occupation pays 60% more than its group median, and it supplies 5.9% of the group's 10,966,830 jobs. In 13 of the 50 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $171,200, which is the single best quick test of whether this occupation's pay is set nationally or locally: a high count means local markets regularly outbid the national figure.

Metropolitan areas: where the jobs and the pay sit

New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ is the largest metro employer with 56,180 jobs, 8.7% of the national total. Two rankings follow across the 379 metros BLS publishes for this occupation: where the jobs are, then where the money is, with the pay ranking restricted to metros employing at least 500 people in this occupation to keep small samples out of the lead.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $103,820 a year, against $319,480 in San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA. The lowest-paying large metro and the highest are both real markets for this occupation; the difference between them is the geography premium, or penalty, in cash terms.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

The median Computer and Information Systems Managers paycheck, gross, is $6,585 every two weeks on an annual $171,200, which is $14,267 a month and $3,292 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($134,350) to the 75th ($216,220) is worth $81,870 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. Gross is a starting point, not a budget: the paycheck calculator nets it down by state, an offer comparison lives in the salary calculator, and the raise vs inflation calculator separates a real raise from a nominal one.

To place a real offer: a salary of $188,320 would sit between the median ($171,200) and the 75th percentile ($216,220), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $134,350, is $36,850 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

Related occupations in Management Occupations

The occupations BLS groups with this one, by size: Lodging Managers, Fundraising Managers, Entertainment and Recreation Managers, Except Gambling, Legislators, Advertising and Promotions Managers, Compensation and Benefits Managers. Every one of the 826 published occupations is indexed on the Careers hub.