2026 Edition · An annual reference on what work pays

Computer Systems Analysts

Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX metropolitan area. Estimated employment 6,930.

Data released May 2025 BLS OEWS · SOC 15-1211
Fig. 1 — The wage rule

Where you sit in the distribution

Drag the marker, or type a figure
$104,590 · 50th
$72,54010th
$84,51025th
$104,59050th
$133,55075th
$169,42090th

That is the medianhalf of computer systems analysts in Austin earn more.

Table 1 — Adjusted

$104,590 in Austin buys what $106,700 buys across the country as a whole.

Austin's regional price parity is 98.1 — below the national average, so a dollar here goes further than the nominal figure suggests. 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 Systems Analysts in Austin, classified from job titles on visa filings.

Mid
$92,248
Senior
$127,784
Lead
$134,285
Table 2 — Nearby metros

The same job, elsewhere in Texas

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

Metro areaMedianAdjustedRPPvs. Austin
Midland$124,540$130,00095.8+21.9%
Dallas$122,520$118,800103.1+11.4%
Houston$113,440$115,00098.6+7.8%
Austin This page$104,590$106,70098.1
Beaumont$101,900$113,20090.0+6.1%
San Antonio$100,840$106,50094.7−0.2%
Longview$98,750$110,40089.5+3.5%
Tyler$97,880$106,20092.2−0.4%

Price parity and difference against Austin 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
Applied Materials$150,000$134k – $155k6+43.4%
Infosys$134,285$91k – $134k30+28.4%
Oracle America$134,285$113k – $134k6+28.4%
Accenture$125,400$91k – $188k16+19.9%
Ibm$112,674$91k – $131k15+7.7%
Compunnel Software Group$93,250$91k – $108k7−10.8%
Tech Mahindra Americas$91,180$91k – $140k10−12.8%

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.

90k100k110k120k 20212022202320242025
Nominal, as published Real, in 2025 dollars US$ thousands

Published pay rose 8.0% over the five years to 2025. Adjusted for inflation it fell 9.1% — 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 90 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
6,930 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
Occupation
SOC 15-1211, Computer Systems Analysts. Mapped to our taxonomy as computer-systems-analysts.

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.