2026 Edition · An annual reference on what work pays

Computer and Information Systems Managers

Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metropolitan area. Estimated employment 20,530.

Data released May 2025 BLS OEWS · SOC 11-3021
Fig. 1 — The wage rule

Where you sit in the distribution

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$214,960 · 50th
$136,80010th
$174,27025th
$214,96050th
$269,52075th
$310,45090th

That is the medianhalf of people in this occupation in Boston earn more.

Table 1 — Adjusted

$214,960 in Boston buys what $198,500 buys across the country as a whole.

Boston's regional price parity is 108.3 — well above the national average — a dollar here buys noticeably less than in the US as a whole. Adjusted figures for other metros are in the nearby-metros table below.

Fig. 2 — The ladder

What comes next

Median offered base pay by seniority for Computer and Information Systems Managers in Boston, classified from job titles on visa filings.

Mid
$185,000
Senior
$194,626
Lead
$201,193
Table 2 — Nearby metros

The same job, elsewhere in Massachusetts

Adjusted figures apply each metro's regional price parity, so the columns are directly comparable.

Metro areaMedianAdjustedRPPvs. Boston
Boston This page$214,960$198,500108.3
Worcester$193,890$189,100102.5−4.7%
Pittsfield$177,960$187,10095.1−5.8%
Barnstable Town$177,300$180,30098.4−9.2%
Springfield$164,030$170,80096.1−14.0%
Amherst Town$156,040$155,700100.2−21.6%

Price parity and difference against Boston are in the full table on wider screens.

Table 3 — Employers

Who pays what

Median offered salary from visa filings, which disclose employer, title and exact figure. Government wage surveys never publish at this level.

EmployerMedian offerRangeFilingsvs. metro
Ernst Young U S$234,296$195k – $295k17+9.0%
Takeda Development Center Americas$215,000$139k – $239k5+0.0%
Pricewaterhousecoopers Advisory Services$206,000$174k – $273k6−4.2%
Wayfair$198,813$137k – $205k5−7.5%
Amazon Com Services$194,626$137k – $272k17−9.5%
Deloitte Consulting$189,100$137k – $299k25−12.0%
Amazon Web Services$178,000$170k – $226k5−17.2%

Offer ranges and filing counts are in the full table on wider screens.

Sources

How this page was made

Wage data
Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 release. Public domain.
Price parity
Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Price Parities, 2024.
Employer pay
Department of Labor, Labor Condition Application disclosures, FY 2025. The table draws on 80 certified filings across 7 employers.
Career ladder
Seniority classified from job titles on the same visa filings; levels shown only with five or more filings each and a strictly rising progression.
Employment
20,530 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
Occupation
SOC 11-3021, Computer and Information Systems Managers. Mapped to our taxonomy as computer-and-information-systems-managers.

Percentiles are reported exactly as released and are never interpolated between published values. Visa filings record offered base salary at time of application, exclude equity and bonus, and skew toward larger employers — treat the employer table as a floor, not an average. We take no payment from employers, recruiters or anyone else for how any figure is presented.