Computer Systems Analysts
What the pay figures show
- A job board will not tell you this about computer systems analysts. The best headline number is Rhode Island, at $134,630. State taxes differ, so Washington leaves you more. Prices differ too, so Rhode Island leaves you better off again — $96,875 once levelled out. Moving for the biggest salary can leave you worse off.
- Wage data for computer systems analysts places Rhode Island first at $134,630. That position is not robust: state income tax alone reorders it to Washington, and regional price parity reorders it again to Rhode Island at $96,875. Because published comparisons almost universally stop at the nominal median, the state that appears best for this occupation is routinely not the state where a worker's income goes furthest.
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Pay by state · May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
National median
$105,850
People doing it
519,530
Highest paid
$134,630
RI
Best off, really
$96,875
RI, after tax and prices
Lowest tenth
$67,340
Highest tenth
$167,710
Lowest, really
$60,672
HI
States with data
50
National average
$114,610
mean, not median
Prices where it goes furthest
101.41%
RI, 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 $60,672 and $96,875. Geography is not the main lever on pay here.
- Roughly 519,530 people hold this job nationally, earning $105,850 in the middle. A solid, ordinary-sized job.
- Some states are missing here. There are figures for 50 jurisdictions, averaging $105,850 in the middle. A blank means nobody published a number, not that the job pays nothing there. Rhode Island leads the published set.
- Wages for computer systems analysts cluster comparatively tightly across states, and the clustering strengthens after tax and price deflation — a real range of $60,672 to $96,875. Occupation-level factors such as specialisation and employer type therefore explain more of an individual's pay here than location does.
- 519,530 are employed nationally in computer systems analysts, placing it well inside the reported range without approaching the highest-headcount occupations.
- Coverage for computer systems analysts runs to 50 jurisdictions, short of the full set. The omitted states are suppressed at source; treat the spread above as the range across reported states rather than across the country.
Pay band: Computer Systems Analysts
The national median for this job
50thpercentile, roughly
| Lowest tenth earn under | $67,340 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $105,850 |
| Top tenth earn over | $167,710 |
| This salary | $105,850 |
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 Systems Analysts
The national median for this job
$105,850around the 50th percentile
| Lowest tenth | $67,340 |
|---|---|
| Middle | $105,850 |
| Top tenth | $167,710 |
The five points BLS publishes. Nothing between them is invented.
Computer Systems Analysts, state by state
The national median for this job
50states publish pay for this job
| Lowest | Idaho · $75,310 |
|---|---|
| Highest | Rhode Island · $134,630 |
| Spread | $59,320 |
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 | $107,390 |
|---|---|
| Worth, after local prices | $110,512 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RI | $134,630 | $98,243 | $96,875 |
| WY | $109,780 | $86,060 | $94,730 |
| ND | $105,470 | $82,231 | $92,841 |
| CO | $127,750 | $93,671 | $92,394 |
| WA | $129,410 | $99,718 | $91,853 |
| SD | $99,790 | $79,032 | $89,713 |
| VA | $120,840 | $87,653 | $87,002 |
| TX | $107,390 | $84,379 | $86,832 |
| MA | $128,240 | $92,826 | $85,761 |
| OH | $102,320 | $78,715 | $85,735 |
| NC | $106,850 | $80,244 | $85,240 |
| AL | $101,770 | $76,180 | $84,672 |
| NV | $104,060 | $82,036 | $84,591 |
| LA | $95,660 | $73,643 | $83,359 |
| KS | $100,770 | $74,387 | $82,685 |
| IA | $95,920 | $73,277 | $82,549 |
| NM | $98,220 | $74,446 | $82,364 |
| NJ | $122,890 | $89,623 | $82,311 |
| TN | $95,630 | $76,106 | $82,263 |
| MI | $103,410 | $77,435 | $82,216 |
| OK | $95,930 | $72,500 | $82,120 |
| IN | $98,810 | $75,457 | $81,855 |
| GA | $106,240 | $78,867 | $81,560 |
| DE | $110,560 | $80,543 | $81,149 |
| CA | $127,720 | $90,777 | $80,632 |
| WI | $100,440 | $74,982 | $80,541 |
| OR | $121,620 | $84,298 | $80,498 |
| MD | $113,610 | $83,624 | $80,435 |
| NH | $107,670 | $84,576 | $80,285 |
| KY | $95,090 | $72,515 | $80,156 |
| SC | $98,280 | $73,816 | $79,221 |
| MN | $106,350 | $77,939 | $79,192 |
| AZ | $103,530 | $79,478 | $78,609 |
| FL | $101,900 | $80,517 | $77,830 |
| UT | $98,770 | $73,919 | $77,808 |
| CT | $109,600 | $80,608 | $77,740 |
| NE | $91,810 | $69,945 | $77,393 |
| PA | $98,550 | $75,134 | $77,061 |
| VT | $99,610 | $74,442 | $77,034 |
| MT | $91,310 | $69,268 | $76,757 |
| MO | $92,060 | $70,205 | $76,507 |
| IL | $101,570 | $75,402 | $76,275 |
| DC | $116,820 | $84,052 | $75,856 |
| MS | $86,280 | $66,169 | $75,802 |
| NY | $109,610 | $80,492 | $74,788 |
| AR | $81,760 | $63,782 | $73,729 |
| ME | $95,820 | $71,030 | $73,154 |
| AK | $88,520 | $71,104 | $69,905 |
| ID | $75,310 | $58,672 | $64,175 |
| HI | $88,640 | $65,895 | $60,672 |
Sources and assumptions
- Treat the numbers for computer systems analysts as a midpoint, not a promise. The national middle is $105,850, 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.
- One filer, no dependants, nothing paid into a pension before tax — that is the household behind every take-home figure for computer systems analysts. It is the simplest case on purpose, so the states can be compared against each other rather than against each other's family circumstances. City income taxes are not counted. On that household, Washington keeps the most at $99,718.
- Levelling out prices for computer systems analysts 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 $60,672.
- These are distribution medians for computer systems analysts, with a national value of $105,850. 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.
- The household modeled for computer systems analysts is a single filer, standard deduction, no dependants, no pre-tax contributions. Holding the household constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful; it also means the absolute figures overstate liability for most real filers. On that basis Washington retains the most, $99,718. Municipal and school-district income taxes are not included in any state.
- The price deflation applied to computer systems analysts 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 $60,672. The comparison establishes the direction and rough magnitude of the reordering rather than an address-level result — Hawaii anchors the bottom at $60,672 — and the two source series are dated independently.