2026 Edition · An annual reference on what work pays

Computer and Information Systems Managers

Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ metropolitan area. Estimated employment 11,510.

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

Where you sit in the distribution

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$169,720 · 50th
$105,76010th
$132,57025th
$169,72050th
$204,35075th
$240,14090th

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

Table 1 — Adjusted

$169,720 in Phoenix buys what $164,300 buys across the country as a whole.

Phoenix's regional price parity is 103.3 — above the national average, so the nominal figure overstates what it buys. 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 Phoenix, classified from job titles on visa filings.

Mid
$159,900
Senior
$178,200
Lead
$197,954
Table 2 — Nearby metros

The same job, elsewhere in Arizona

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

Metro areaMedianAdjustedRPPvs. Phoenix
Phoenix This page$169,720$164,300103.3
Sierra Vista$156,890$175,80089.2+7.0%
Tucson$151,520$156,40096.9−4.8%
Flagstaff$134,700$134,300100.3−18.3%
Lake Havasu City$133,980$142,40094.1−13.3%
Prescott Valley$132,350$134,70098.3−18.0%
Yuma$123,620$133,30092.7−18.8%

Price parity and difference against Phoenix 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
American Express Travel Related Services$185,309$127k – $280k54+9.2%
Amazon Com Services$183,750$149k – $220k6+8.3%
American Express$182,640$151k – $233k5+7.6%
Deloitte Consulting$172,300$110k – $287k15+1.5%

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 11.9% over the five years to 2025. Adjusted for inflation it fell 5.9% — 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 80 certified filings across 4 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
11,510 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.