Information Security Analysts salary

SOC 15-1212 · BLS OEWS May 2025

Median

$129,180

per year, nationally

Middle half

$97,810–$163,500

25th to 75th percentile

Employed

190,650

in the U.S.

Growth 2024–34

+28.5%

16,000 openings/yr

What the range looks like

A single median hides most of what a job pays. The bar below is the full national range: the wash spans the 10th to 90th percentile, the solid bar is the middle half, and the tick is the median.

$75,090$199,850

10th: $75,090
25th: $97,810
Median: $129,180
75th: $163,500
90th: $199,850

Getting in

Typical education to enter: Bachelor's degree
Related work experience: Less than 5 years
On-the-job training: None

Entry requirements describe what is typical, not mandatory. Source: BLS Employment Projections, 2024–34.

Where information security analysts earn the most

Nominal pay and pay adjusted for local prices rank states differently — a high-wage state with high costs can be worse off in real terms than a middling one. Switch between the two below.

The median wage as published, before local prices are taken into account.

#	State	Median	Cost of living	Employed	Concentrationvs. national
1	Washington	$154,940	107.0	6,030	1.38×
2	Maryland	$139,640	105.0	8,650	2.55×
3	California	$138,570	110.7	15,570	0.70×
4	Delaware	$137,030	99.8	720	1.21×
5	Massachusetts	$136,550	105.8	6,100	1.37×
6	Colorado	$135,220	103.1	5,700	1.62×
7	District of Columbia	$135,090	109.9	1,510	1.76×
8	Virginia	$134,900	101.1	19,120	3.80×
9	New Jersey	$134,820	108.8	4,860	0.92×
10	New York	$134,660	107.9	10,060	0.85×
11	North Carolina	$131,540	94.3	8,670	1.43×
12	Minnesota	$130,710	98.6	2,680	0.74×
13	Connecticut	$130,570	103.6	1,170	0.56×
14	New Mexico	$130,070	92.2	2,470	2.32×
15	Texas	$129,890	97.1	16,130	0.94×
16	Georgia	$128,970	96.3	6,290	1.05×
17	Hawaii	$126,250	110.0	580	0.75×
18	Arizona	$125,260	100.7	3,420	0.86×
19	Florida	$124,860	103.4	14,220	1.17×
20	Illinois	$124,180	100.0	5,260	0.70×
21	New Hampshire	$124,000	104.2	590	0.70×
22	Alabama	$122,730	88.8	4,010	1.55×
23	Iowa	$119,710	87.8	1,160	0.61×
24	Pennsylvania	$117,770	97.6	4,660	0.63×
25	South Dakota	$116,640	88.6	770	1.37×
26	Tennessee	$115,430	91.9	3,330	0.83×
27	Alaska	$114,990	102.4	300	0.75×
28	Ohio	$110,480	92.8	6,010	0.88×
29	Vermont	$109,750	98.0	220	0.59×
30	Rhode Island	$109,420	102.3	710	1.15×
31	North Dakota	$107,540	89.0	310	0.59×
32	Michigan	$106,230	96.2	3,280	0.61×
33	Nevada	$106,200	100.0	1,330	0.70×
34	South Carolina	$105,800	93.7	1,720	0.61×
35	Kentucky	$103,630	90.2	1,680	0.69×
36	Arkansas	$103,490	86.9	1,460	0.91×
37	Missouri	$103,440	90.8	3,260	0.91×
38	Maine	$101,730	97.0	400	0.51×
39	Wisconsin	$101,550	94.1	2,130	0.59×
40	Indiana	$101,420	93.3	2,260	0.58×
41	Kansas	$100,620	90.1	1,830	1.04×
42	Utah	$99,690	98.9	1,910	0.90×
43	Wyoming	$98,710	92.7	140	0.39×
44	Oklahoma	$94,000	87.8	1,640	0.78×
45	Louisiana	$92,990	88.2	720	0.30×
46	Nebraska	$92,550	90.1	1,210	0.97×
47	Mississippi	$87,690	87.0	480	0.33×
48	Montana	$81,950	94.6	380	0.60×

Cost of living is the BEA regional price parity for all items, where 100 is the national average. Concentration is the BLS location quotient: how much more of the local workforce does this job than the national average, so 2.00× means twice the national share. It is often the reason wages differ — a place that concentrates an occupation has the employers and the competition for it. States where information security analysts wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

Best paying metro areas for information security analysts

The 40 highest-paying metros with a published estimate. BLS suppresses roughly half of all occupation-by-metro cells, so a metro absent here has no local figure rather than a low one.

The median wage as published, before local prices are taken into account.

#	Metro area	Median	Cost of living	Employed	Concentrationvs. national
1	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$176,120	110.4	2,280	1.64×
2	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$162,310	115.6	3,730	1.28×
3	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$161,780	111.1	4,700	1.84×
4	Boulder, CO	$154,990	105.2	520	2.22×
5	Asheville, NC	$149,350	96.5	200	0.90×
6	Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV	$148,950	108.9	16,560	4.31×
7	Wilmington, NC	$145,170	96.4	230	0.99×
8	Raleigh-Cary, NC	$143,640	98.2	2,510	2.75×
9	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$140,470	112.6	11,330	0.97×
10	Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD	$138,170	104.5	4,600	2.77×
11	Vallejo, CA	$137,160	108.5	40	0.23×
12	Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO	$136,670	105.8	3,580	1.81×
13	New Haven, CT	$136,590	104.6	130	0.37×
14	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	$136,550	108.3	5,220	1.57×
15	Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX	$134,100	98.1	2,390	1.51×
16	Fort Collins-Loveland, CO	$133,850	101.1	170	0.80×
17	Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX	$133,610	103.1	7,080	1.43×
18	Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA	$133,570	106.7	570	0.43×
19	San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA	$133,100	108.6	30	0.20×
20	Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD	$132,560	102.6	2,710	0.76×
21	San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA	$132,120	111.9	1,330	0.71×
22	Peoria, IL	$132,090	91.2	460	2.26×
23	Kahului-Wailuku, HI	$131,640	109.4	—	—
24	Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL	$131,500	102.3	180	0.49×
25	Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA	$131,490	100.1	4,550	1.29×
26	Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC	$131,440	97.3	2,640	1.58×
27	Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT	$131,410	102.7	560	0.76×
28	Colorado Springs, CO	$130,880	100.7	1,000	2.59×
29	Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA	$130,770	108.8	140	0.56×
30	Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI	$130,710	104.8	2,240	0.93×
31	Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA	$130,440	110.5	190	0.48×
32	Decatur, AL	$130,400	87.2	50	0.69×
33	Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ	$130,360	103.3	2,590	0.89×
34	Huntsville, AL	$130,330	93.1	1,840	5.63×
35	Jackson, MI	$130,010	91.8	80	1.20×
36	Winston-Salem, NC	$129,980	92.0	280	0.83×
37	Durham-Chapel Hill, NC	$129,670	97.6	860	2.04×
38	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$129,630	113.6	4,820	0.63×
39	Albuquerque, NM	$129,560	95.5	1,240	2.50×
40	Trenton-Princeton, NJ	$129,540	103.2	210	0.72×

Cost of living is the BEA regional price parity for all items, where 100 is the national average. Concentration is the BLS location quotient: how much more of the local workforce does this job than the national average, so 2.00× means twice the national share. It is often the reason wages differ — a place that concentrates an occupation has the employers and the competition for it. Metro areas where information security analysts wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

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Other jobs in the same field, with what each pays nationally.

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Computer Network Architects$134,050
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