United States · BLS May 2025

How much does a computer and information systems manager make?

Also called IT manager, IT director. SOC 11-3021.

A computer and information systems manager in the United States earns a median of $175,140 a year ($84.20 an hour). Figure from the BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey. The survey counted 670,570 of these jobs in the United States in May 2025.

Median pay · the United States

$175,140A year, or $84 an hour.
Jobs counted670,570Wage and salary jobs
What computer and information systems managers earn in the United States, May 2025
PercentileAnnualHourly
10th percentile1 in 10 earn less$107,550$52
25th percentile$138,060$66
MedianHalf earn more, half less$175,140$84
75th percentile$220,730$106
90th percentile1 in 10 earn more$297,510$143
MeanAll pay divided by all jobs$192,160$92

Wage survey · BLS May 2025

How we got this
  1. Median wage in the United StatesBLS OEWS May 2025. Half of the people in this job were paid more than this, half less.$175,140
  2. Median hourly wagePublished separately by BLS, not divided out of the annual figure.$84.20
  3. Jobs countedWage and salary jobs; the self-employed are not surveyed.670,570
What we assumed
  • Wages are BLS OEWS survey estimates for May 2025, not job postings or offers.
  • OEWS surveys wage and salary workers. The self-employed and business owners are outside it.
Technical details

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Which state pays computer and information systems managers the most?

California pays a median of $218,290, Wyoming $120,850. That is a gap of $97,440 before either state's taxes or prices are counted.

Common questions

Computer and Information Systems Manager pay in the United States, answered

How much does a computer and information systems manager make?

The median wage for computer and information systems managers in the United States is $175,140 a year, or $84.20 an hour.

Half earn more than that and half earn less. The figure comes from the Bureau of Labor Statistics occupational wage survey for May 2025.

What is the average computer and information systems manager salary?

BLS’s mean (average) wage for computer and information systems managers in the United States is $192,160 a year. The median is $175,140.

The mean sits higher when a smaller group of high earners pulls the average up. For a typical paycheck, the median is the better middle.

What is the hourly pay for a computer and information systems manager?

The median hourly wage is $84.20. At a full-time year that lines up with about $175,140 a year.

BLS May 2025; hourly and annual figures come from the same survey.

What is the starting salary for a computer and information systems manager?

BLS does not publish starting pay. The closest figure it does publish is the low end of the range: in the United States, the lowest-paid 10% of computer and information systems managers earn under $107,550 a year and a quarter earn under $138,060 ($51.71 and $66.38 an hour).

New hires often start somewhere in that band, but the May 2025 survey does not record experience, so read it as a floor to compare an offer against rather than a typical first salary.

What is the salary range for a computer and information systems manager?

The overall salary range for computer and information systems managers in the United States spans from $107,550 for the bottom 10% to $297,510 for top earners.

The middle 50% earn between $138,060 and $220,730 a year, with the overall median at $175,140.

What do the highest-paid computer and information systems managers earn?

The top tenth earn $297,510 a year or more. The 10th-percentile wage is $107,550.

Experience, specialty, employer and the part of the United States someone works in all move a wage inside that range; the survey reports the spread, not the reason for it.

How many computer and information systems managers are there in the United States?

The survey counted 670,570 of these jobs in the United States for May 2025.

It counts wage and salary jobs, so the self-employed are outside it.

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