Computer Occupations, All Other salary

SOC 15-1299 · BLS OEWS May 2025

Median

$116,580

per year, nationally

Middle half

$79,370–$157,500

25th to 75th percentile

Employed

435,370

in the U.S.

Growth 2024–34

+8.2%

31,300 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.

$55,940$188,470

10th: $55,940
25th: $79,370
Median: $116,580
75th: $157,500
90th: $188,470

Getting in

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

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

Where computer occupations, all other 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	District of Columbia	$156,590	109.9	17,200	8.75×
2	Maryland	$144,680	105.0	19,060	2.46×
3	Colorado	$139,580	103.1	11,800	1.47×
4	Virginia	$139,030	101.1	17,000	1.48×
5	Delaware	$137,470	99.8	860	0.63×
6	California	$134,440	110.7	80,150	1.57×
7	Washington	$128,940	107.0	14,360	1.44×
8	Connecticut	$127,720	103.6	3,100	0.65×
9	New Mexico	$127,090	92.2	1,650	0.67×
10	Hawaii	$120,100	110.0	2,080	1.18×
11	New York	$116,990	107.9	11,460	0.42×
12	South Carolina	$112,260	93.7	4,300	0.67×
13	Texas	$111,530	97.1	57,020	1.45×
14	Vermont	$111,530	98.0	1,320	1.56×
15	Ohio	$109,780	92.8	6,150	0.40×
16	Massachusetts	$109,590	105.8	6,170	0.61×
17	New Jersey	$108,310	108.8	12,010	1.00×
18	Maine	$107,990	97.0	900	0.50×
19	Iowa	$107,340	87.8	3,850	0.88×
20	Pennsylvania	$107,230	97.6	14,580	0.86×
21	West Virginia	$107,140	89.5	3,380	1.72×
22	Alabama	$106,330	88.8	2,630	0.44×
23	Alaska	$105,960	102.4	710	0.78×
24	Michigan	$105,680	96.2	7,440	0.60×
25	Florida	$105,370	103.4	13,710	0.49×
26	South Dakota	$105,370	88.6	240	0.18×
27	Arizona	$105,240	100.7	5,510	0.61×
28	North Carolina	$104,850	94.3	15,090	1.09×
29	Georgia	$104,610	96.3	20,630	1.51×
30	Kansas	$103,380	90.1	1,340	0.33×
31	Oklahoma	$102,520	87.8	3,320	0.69×
32	Rhode Island	$102,210	102.3	830	0.59×
33	Missouri	$101,040	90.8	14,340	1.74×
34	Nevada	$100,220	100.0	2,610	0.60×
35	Illinois	$99,360	100.0	11,160	0.65×
36	Idaho	$98,700	95.5	1,040	0.43×
37	Utah	$97,470	98.9	6,680	1.37×
38	Oregon	$97,350	103.4	2,450	0.45×
39	Wyoming	$94,520	92.7	170	0.22×
40	Indiana	$93,540	93.3	3,340	0.37×
41	Nebraska	$92,480	90.1	2,280	0.79×
42	Minnesota	$91,750	98.6	4,180	0.51×
43	New Hampshire	$91,720	104.2	970	0.51×
44	Kentucky	$89,420	90.2	1,850	0.33×
45	Wisconsin	$88,130	94.1	4,680	0.57×
46	Arkansas	$86,940	86.9	1,120	0.31×
47	Mississippi	$86,940	87.0	1,450	0.45×
48	Montana	$81,970	94.6	540	0.38×
49	North Dakota	$78,330	89.0	730	0.60×
50	Louisiana	$77,000	88.2	5,020	0.93×
51	Tennessee	$76,470	91.9	10,930	1.19×

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 computer occupations, all other wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

Best paying metro areas for computer occupations, all other

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	$184,430	110.4	16,680	5.25×
2	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$161,700	115.6	16,930	2.55×
3	Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO	$160,520	105.8	7,850	1.74×
4	Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV	$156,640	108.9	—	—
5	Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV	$148,700	94.2	350	1.18×
6	Boulder, CO	$147,590	105.2	1,120	2.09×
7	Lexington Park, MD	$144,680	100.8	1,000	5.05×
8	Charlottesville, VA	$144,580	99.1	220	0.67×
9	Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT	$140,750	106.9	800	0.71×
10	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$136,120	111.1	10,710	1.83×
11	Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD	$135,600	104.5	9,010	2.37×
12	Salinas, CA	$131,730	109.0	500	0.95×
13	Charleston-North Charleston, SC	$131,600	101.0	1,590	1.44×
14	Columbus, OH	$129,940	95.5	2,410	0.78×
15	Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX	$129,470	98.1	10,100	2.79×
16	Jackson, MI	$128,570	91.8	110	0.71×
17	Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA	$128,390	108.8	670	1.18×
18	Albuquerque, NM	$127,820	95.5	870	0.77×
19	San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA	$127,600	111.9	7,340	1.70×
20	Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX	$127,360	103.1	19,540	1.72×
21	Sebastian-Vero Beach-West Vero Corridor, FL	$127,190	98.3	40	0.23×
22	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$126,910	112.6	16,230	0.61×
23	Waterbury-Shelton, CT	$126,330	99.8	270	0.61×
24	Durham-Chapel Hill, NC	$126,300	97.6	2,090	2.17×
25	York-Hanover, PA	$125,050	96.0	550	1.06×
26	Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD	$121,990	102.6	7,360	0.91×
27	Burlington-South Burlington, VT	$121,850	100.9	840	2.51×
28	Fort Collins-Loveland, CO	$121,610	101.1	490	1.04×
29	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	$121,230	108.3	4,800	0.63×
30	Bellingham, WA	$120,540	103.3	140	0.53×
31	Huntsville, AL	$120,450	93.1	890	1.19×
32	Urban Honolulu, HI	$120,100	111.0	1,880	1.50×
33	Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA	$119,520	105.6	590	2.23×
34	Greeley, CO	$119,130	100.2	120	0.35×
35	Winchester, VA-WV	$118,290	96.5	220	1.18×
36	Sierra Vista-Douglas, AZ	$118,120	89.2	500	5.29×
37	Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT	$117,600	102.7	1,020	0.61×
38	Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC	$116,920	97.9	3,490	1.63×
39	Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH	$116,580	92.7	1,110	1.07×
40	Greenville, NC	$116,080	88.4	120	0.52×

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 computer occupations, all other wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

Similar occupations

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

Software Developers$135,980
Computer User Support Specialists$61,860
Computer Systems Analysts$105,850
Network and Computer Systems Administrators$99,130
Information Security Analysts$129,180
Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers$104,300
Computer Network Architects$134,050
Computer Network Support Specialists$76,220