2026 Edition · An annual reference on what work pays

Computer and Information Systems Managers

New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ metropolitan area. Estimated employment 62,430.

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

Where you sit in the distribution

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$215,300 · 50th
$139,61010th
$171,95025th
$215,30050th
$285,57075th
$322,41090th

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

Table 1 — Adjusted

$215,300 in New York buys what $191,300 buys across the country as a whole.

New York's regional price parity is 112.6 — 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 New York, classified from job titles on visa filings.

Mid
$197,898
Senior
$210,000
Lead
$222,702
Table 2 — Nearby metros

The same job, elsewhere in New York

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

Metro areaMedianAdjustedRPPvs. New York
New York This page$215,300$191,300112.6
Kiryas Joel$175,170$160,100109.4−16.3%
Binghamton$174,740$188,20092.9−1.6%
Buffalo$172,650$180,10095.8−5.8%
Rochester$170,000$175,20097.0−8.4%
Syracuse$169,760$177,30095.7−7.3%
Ithaca$168,410$163,000103.3−14.8%
Glens Falls$164,530$173,40094.9−9.3%

Price parity and difference against New York 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$275,000$176k – $401k76+27.7%
Meta Platforms$271,337$186k – $349k21+26.0%
Datadog$260,000$220k – $350k7+20.8%
Spotify Usa$234,400$192k – $297k10+8.9%
Google$234,200$190k – $285k9+8.8%
Uber Technologies$231,700$195k – $247k8+7.6%
PWC US Consulting$231,000$158k – $684k7+7.3%

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

Fig. 3 — Five-year trend

Nominal against real

The same median, once as published and once restated in 2025 dollars.

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Nominal, as published Real, in 2025 dollars US$ thousands

Published pay rose 6.6% over the five years to 2025. Adjusted for inflation it fell 10.2% — prices rose faster than pay since 2021. The two lines meet at the right edge by construction, since 2025 is the base year.

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 138 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.
Inflation
Real figures deflate by CPI-U annual averages (BLS, all items, US city average).
Employment
62,430 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.