Computer and Information Systems Managers
What the pay figures show
- California comes first for this job on every measure. $218,290 on paper. Still first after tax. Still first at $143,538 once you adjust for what things cost. When the headline and the reality agree, say so plainly.
- For computer and information systems managers, California's $218,290 median is the highest nominally, after tax, and after regional price adjustment, at $143,538. Concordance across all three measures is uncommon and worth stating explicitly, because the absence of a reordering is itself the finding for this occupation.
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Pay by state · May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
National median
$175,140
People doing it
670,570
Highest paid
$218,290
CA
Best off, really
$143,538
WA, after tax and prices
Lowest tenth
$107,550
Highest tenth
$297,510
Lowest, really
$90,894
HI
States with data
51
National average
$192,160
mean, not median
Prices where it goes furthest
108.56%
WA, against a national 100
Where this job actually pays best
- Nationally, this job pays within a fairly narrow band. Adjust for tax and for local prices and the band tightens again, to between $90,894 and $143,538. Geography is not the main lever on pay here.
- Roughly 670,570 people hold this job nationally, earning $175,140 in the middle. A solid, ordinary-sized job.
- No gaps here — all 51 jurisdictions publish a number for this job, which sits at $175,140 in the middle.
- Wages for computer and information systems managers cluster comparatively tightly across states, and the clustering strengthens after tax and price deflation — a real range of $90,894 to $143,538. Occupation-level factors such as specialisation and employer type therefore explain more of an individual's pay here than location does.
- 670,570 are employed nationally in computer and information systems managers, placing it well inside the reported range without approaching the highest-headcount occupations.
- 51 jurisdictions report computer and information systems managers, giving full coverage. The extremes quoted above are therefore the true reported maximum and minimum.
Pay band: Computer and Information Systems Managers
The national median for this job
50thpercentile, roughly
| Lowest tenth earn under | $107,550 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $175,140 |
| Top tenth earn over | $297,510 |
| This salary | $175,140 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
Where these numbers come from
| BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025 estimates, time-series bulk download (oe.data.0.Current) | as of 2025-05-01 |
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Steps in Computer and Information Systems Managers
The national median for this job
$175,140around the 50th percentile
| Lowest tenth | $107,550 |
|---|---|
| Middle | $175,140 |
| Top tenth | $297,510 |
The five points BLS publishes. Nothing between them is invented.
Computer and Information Systems Managers, state by state
The national median for this job
51states publish pay for this job
| Lowest | Wyoming · $120,850 |
|---|---|
| Highest | California · $218,290 |
| Spread | $97,440 |
One dot per state that publishes this job. A missing state means suppressed data, not zero pay.
Best paid, and best off
The national median for this job
| Texas pays | $171,530 |
|---|---|
| Worth, after local prices | $176,517 |
Median pay against the same pay once BEA price parities are applied.
Every state, three ways
Sorted by what the money is actually worth. "Kept" is take-home for a single filer after federal, FICA and state income tax. "Really worth" divides that by the state's own price level, so a dollar in each row buys the same thing. Tap a state to put your own salary into it. States BLS does not publish for this job are absent — that means no published figure, not no work.
| State | Median pay | Kept after tax | Really worth |
|---|---|---|---|
| WA | $209,370 | $155,828 | $143,538 |
| SD | $162,240 | $122,157 | $138,665 |
| CO | $199,420 | $140,429 | $138,514 |
| VA | $201,490 | $139,199 | $138,164 |
| MA | $214,960 | $149,517 | $138,137 |
| NY | $214,300 | $147,287 | $136,851 |
| TX | $171,530 | $128,507 | $132,243 |
| NC | $172,860 | $123,027 | $130,687 |
| OH | $163,640 | $119,330 | $129,972 |
| CA | $218,290 | $146,155 | $129,822 |
| TN | $158,700 | $119,737 | $129,425 |
| NJ | $203,460 | $140,705 | $129,226 |
| NV | $165,000 | $124,044 | $127,906 |
| KS | $164,830 | $115,018 | $127,848 |
| GA | $173,940 | $122,073 | $126,240 |
| ND | $149,130 | $111,548 | $125,940 |
| NH | $176,540 | $131,931 | $125,237 |
| ID | $162,240 | $114,412 | $125,143 |
| MO | $159,460 | $113,700 | $123,907 |
| MI | $163,760 | $116,487 | $123,680 |
| MN | $176,380 | $120,809 | $122,752 |
| FL | $168,470 | $126,415 | $122,197 |
| SC | $160,860 | $113,799 | $122,132 |
| UT | $163,610 | $115,813 | $121,906 |
| IL | $171,730 | $120,288 | $121,681 |
| PA | $163,910 | $118,266 | $121,299 |
| WI | $160,140 | $112,821 | $121,186 |
| AZ | $166,430 | $121,263 | $119,937 |
| DC | $195,190 | $131,718 | $118,875 |
| IA | $143,780 | $104,688 | $117,935 |
| DE | $168,500 | $116,546 | $117,423 |
| RI | $167,270 | $119,002 | $117,345 |
| MD | $171,490 | $120,222 | $115,637 |
| CT | $171,750 | $119,602 | $115,347 |
| ME | $160,260 | $110,987 | $114,306 |
| KY | $140,360 | $102,407 | $113,197 |
| IN | $142,040 | $104,190 | $113,024 |
| WV | $139,820 | $101,318 | $112,862 |
| OK | $137,280 | $99,420 | $112,611 |
| AL | $138,670 | $100,379 | $111,570 |
| NM | $137,730 | $99,987 | $110,622 |
| OR | $175,270 | $115,731 | $110,513 |
| NE | $135,780 | $98,597 | $109,097 |
| AR | $127,220 | $93,972 | $108,628 |
| LA | $127,500 | $94,974 | $107,503 |
| MT | $132,860 | $95,930 | $106,301 |
| MS | $124,280 | $91,332 | $104,628 |
| WY | $120,850 | $93,848 | $103,302 |
| VT | $138,460 | $98,764 | $102,203 |
| AK | $133,490 | $102,506 | $100,778 |
| HI | $141,640 | $98,719 | $90,894 |
Sources and assumptions
- Treat the numbers for this job as a midpoint, not a promise. The national middle is $175,140, which means half of everyone doing this work earns less than that. Where you land depends on how long you have done it, who you do it for, and which city you do it in.
- The take-home numbers here use the simplest possible household: one filer for this job, no children, no pension contributions, standard deduction. Real life usually reduces the tax bill below this. City and school-district income taxes are left out, and in Ohio or Pennsylvania that is a real omission. The best after-tax state here is Washington, at $155,828.
- Levelling out prices for this job is done with one number per state, which is a simplification. Living costs inside a state vary a lot between its cities and its countryside. The comparison shows which way the ranking moves, not an exact figure for any address — Hawaii sits at the bottom on $90,894.
- These are distribution medians for computer and information systems managers, with a national value of $175,140. They describe a midpoint rather than an expected offer, and the within-occupation spread — visible in the tenth and ninetieth percentile figures — is wide enough that a state-level median is a weak predictor for any individual worker.
- Retained-pay figures for computer and information systems managers model a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax deferrals — deliberately the simplest household, so the comparison across states isolates geography rather than personal circumstances. Local income taxes are outside the model; Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland residents should expect a meaningfully lower figure than $155,828, which leads in Washington.
- The price deflation applied to computer and information systems managers uses state-level parities. Within-state dispersion in price level, concentrated in housing, is large enough that a state figure describes no particular locality well; the bottom of this occupation's real range is Hawaii at $90,894. The comparison establishes the direction and rough magnitude of the reordering rather than an address-level result — Hawaii anchors the bottom at $90,894 — and the two source series are dated independently.