Network and Computer Systems Administrators
Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metropolitan area. Estimated employment 9,920.
Where you sit in the distribution
That is the median — half of people in this occupation in Washington earn more.
$125,430 in Washington buys what $115,200 buys across the country as a whole.
Washington's regional price parity is 108.9 — 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.
What comes next
Median offered base pay by seniority for Network and Computer Systems Administrators in Washington, classified from job titles on visa filings.
Who pays what
Median offered salary from visa filings, which disclose employer, title and exact figure. Government wage surveys never publish at this level.
| Employer | Median offer | Range | Filings | vs. metro |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Accenture | $121,100 | $99k – $147k | 7 | −3.5% |
| Amazon Web Services | $114,960 | $97k – $152k | 9 | −8.3% |
| Hughes Network Systems | $113,772 | $84k – $156k | 13 | −9.3% |
Offer ranges and filing counts are in the full table on wider screens.
Nominal against real
The same median, once as published and once restated in 2025 dollars.
Published pay rose 23.3% over the five years to 2025. Adjusted for inflation it still rose 3.7% — pay has outrun prices since 2021. The two lines meet at the right edge by construction, since 2025 is the base year.
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 29 certified filings across 3 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
- 9,920 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
- Occupation
- SOC 15-1244, Network and Computer Systems Administrators. Mapped to our taxonomy as network-and-computer-systems-administrators.
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.