High paying tech and IT jobs in Paducah, KY-IL

Every tech and IT occupation below is ranked by its median annual wage in Paducah, KY-IL. Read the percentile range, not just the median: the gap between the 10th and 90th inside a single tech and IT job is usually wider than the gap between two different ones, so where you land in a field matters more than which field you pick.

Cost of living: prices in Paducah, KY-IL run 13.9% below the national average (2024), so a Paducah, KY-IL salary is worth about 1.16× its face value in national terms. That scales every wage here by the same factor — it changes what the numbers mean, not their order.

Local wage estimates are suppressed more often than state ones — BLS withholds any figure too few local employers report — so an occupation missing here simply has no published local estimate.

Wages: BLS OEWS, May 2025 · Cost of living: BEA regional price parities, 2024

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OccupationMedian, Paducah, KY-IL · Employed

1Computer and Information Systems Managers$130,300
Bachelor's degree
$79,150 – $200,02080
2Software Developers$99,260
Bachelor's degree
$62,680 – $155,570140
3Computer Systems Analysts$94,550
Bachelor's degree
$59,390 – $127,98080
4Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers$79,340
Bachelor's degree
$61,600 – $143,88040
5Network and Computer Systems Administrators$78,690
Bachelor's degree
$45,970 – $134,59050
6Computer User Support Specialists$57,570
Some college, no degree
$37,440 – $83,620160

Bars run from the 10th to the 90th percentile; the middle half is shaded darker, and the tick is the median.

#	Occupation	MedianPaducah, KY-IL	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	Computer and Information Systems ManagersBachelor's degree	$130,300	$79,150 – $200,020	80
2	Software DevelopersBachelor's degree	$99,260	$62,680 – $155,570	140
3	Computer Systems AnalystsBachelor's degree	$94,550	$59,390 – $127,980	80
4	Software Quality Assurance Analysts and TestersBachelor's degree	$79,340	$61,600 – $143,880	40
5	Network and Computer Systems AdministratorsBachelor's degree	$78,690	$45,970 – $134,590	50
6	Computer User Support SpecialistsSome college, no degree	$57,570	$37,440 – $83,620	160

Ranked among the occupations common enough to employ roughly one in every three thousand workers in Paducah, KY-IL. The rarer ones are real jobs — but a 1,190-person occupation at the top of a list answers a different question than the one most readers are asking.

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