Information Security Analysts in Washington
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$117,167
after federal, FICA and Washington tax
Tax takes
$37,773
24.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$107,927
Washington costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Washington — roughly, since only five points along the band are published.
One filer, standard deduction, no dependants and nothing paid in before tax — the same household the rest of this page uses, so the comparison holds. City and school-district income taxes are not included.
Median here
$154,940
Kept after tax
$117,167
Worth in national money
$107,927
State rank
1
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. Washington's middle earner gets $154,940, putting the state 1 of 48 — about 19.94% ahead of the national figure.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 493 occupations Washington reports, this job comes in at 29 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- The wage here flatters the reality. From $154,940 the take-home is $117,167. But Washington costs more than the national average, so that money behaves more like $107,927 would elsewhere. Worth knowing before comparing offers across states. The average is higher, $156,080, because the best-paid pull it up.
- For information security analysts, Washington sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $154,940, ranking 1 of 48 and running about 19.94% above the national midpoint. Nominal advantage of this size is usually, though not always, large enough to survive the state's own tax and price levels.
- Information security analysts ranks 29 of 493 occupations by median in Washington, in the top quartile. Within-state position is largely independent of national position, so this holds regardless of how the state compares to others for the same work.
- Retained pay after federal, FICA and Washington income tax is $117,167 for information security analysts, from $154,940. The state's price level exceeds the national average, so the price-adjusted equivalent is $107,927. ⚠️ This is purchasing power and not a wage; cross-state offer comparisons that stop at the nominal figure systematically overvalue high-cost states. The mean of $156,080 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Information Security Analysts
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $96,730 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $154,940 |
| Top tenth earn over | $211,720 |
| This salary | $154,940 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
The same pay, somewhere else
The state median for this job
| Take-home in Washington | $117,167 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $117,167 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$12,647 |
The raise and the real gain point in opposite directions here.
State income tax and state price levels only. No city income tax, and no housing market.
What you would need there
The state median for this job
| To match take-home only | $154,940 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$17,980 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 109 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $154,940 as a midpoint for Washington, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $96,730 and the ninetieth is $211,720 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- In Washington the take-home figure of $117,167, from $154,940, assumes one filer, no dependants, and nothing paid into a pension before tax. Each of those lowers the bill, so treat it as the plain case. City and school-district income taxes are not included either, and in a few states those are real money. It ranks 29 of 493 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $107,927, the adjusted value of that $154,940 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Washington. No actual address matches that. The wage figures and price figures are also from different years. Each is published on its own timetable. This work sits at 29 of 493 locally.
- The Washington median of $154,940 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $96,730 to $211,720. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Take-home for Washington is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $117,167 from $154,940. Each omitted item reduces taxable income, so the figure is a lower bound on retained pay for this household shape. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The occupation ranks 29 of 493 locally.
- This $107,927 adjusted figure, worked from $154,940, rests on a state-level price parity averaging over within-state dispersion larger than much of the between-state dispersion. Wage and price vintages differ by publication schedule. The result is directionally sound and not address-specific, for work at 29 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 29 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
The label is broader than the work. From $96,730 at the bottom tenth to $211,720 at the top, the same title covers roles that share little beyond a name.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
A larger wage in a dearer place is not automatically more. Adjusted for local prices, this pay behaves like $107,927 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $117,167 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 48 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($96,730) and the ninetieth ($211,720) exceeds the family median dispersion. SOC codes aggregate roles differing in seniority, industry and specialisation, and BLS does not disaggregate below the detailed occupation level, so within-title variance is not separable from the published series.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Washington's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $107,927 in national-average terms. ⚠️ RPPs are an all-items index; housing parities vary far more widely than the headline figure.
Why is the take-home ratio comparatively high in this state?
Washington levies no personal income tax on wages, so take-home of $117,167 reflects the federal layer and FICA alone. Federal income tax and FICA are unchanged; states without a wage income tax generally recover revenue through consumption and property bases instead.
Why does this occupation lack published estimates in every state?
BLS suppresses estimates failing disclosure or reliability criteria. This occupation has published state-level estimates in 48 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.