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Information Security Analysts

New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ metropolitan area. Estimated employment 11,330.

Data released May 2025 BLS OEWS · SOC 15-1212
Fig. 1 — The wage rule

Where you sit in the distribution

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$140,470 · 50th
$86,86010th
$107,81025th
$140,47050th
$175,71075th
$216,28090th

That is the medianhalf of information security analysts in New York earn more.

Table 1 — Adjusted

$140,470 in New York buys what $124,800 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.

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$140,470$124,800112.6
Buffalo$116,290$121,30095.8−2.8%
Binghamton$108,630$117,00092.9−6.3%
Syracuse$108,270$113,10095.7−9.4%
Kiryas Joel$106,740$97,500109.4−21.8%
Ithaca$106,360$102,900103.3−17.5%
Rochester$105,860$109,10097.0−12.6%
Albany$103,890$104,30099.6−16.4%

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
Pricewaterhousecoopers Advisory Services$188,000$131k – $238k12+33.8%
Morgan Stanley Services Group$182,000$146k – $300k6+29.6%
Ernst Young U S$178,751$95k – $272k73+27.3%
Amazon Com Services$175,000$159k – $221k13+24.6%
Goldman Sachs Services$158,000$115k – $190k6+12.5%
Goldman Sachs$156,000$98k – $240k5+11.1%
Deloitte Touche$153,439$112k – $199k40+9.2%

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

Fig. 2 — Five-year trend

Nominal against real

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

120k130k140k150k160k 20212022202320242025
Nominal, as published Real, in 2025 dollars US$ thousands

Published pay rose 9.3% over the five years to 2025. Adjusted for inflation it fell 8.0% — 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 155 certified filings across 7 employers.
Inflation
Real figures deflate by CPI-U annual averages (BLS, all items, US city average).
Employment
11,330 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
Occupation
SOC 15-1212, Information Security Analysts. Mapped to our taxonomy as information-security-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.