Computer Systems Analysts

What do Computer Systems Analysts do?

Analyze science, engineering, business, and other data processing problems to develop and implement solutions to complex applications problems, system administration issues, or network concerns. Perform systems management and integration functions, improve existing computer systems, and review computer system capabilities, workflow, and schedule limitations. May analyze or recommend commercially available software.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, SOC 2018 (SOC 15-1211)

What our data shows for Computer Systems Analysts

RoleHue publishes 1,164 salary records for Computer Systems Analysts, across 51 cities. Weighted by how many records each city contributes, the band runs from $102,092 at the 25th percentile to $126,817 at the 75th, a spread of $24,725 around $111,180. Each of those three figures averages the city-level percentiles rather than ranking the pooled records, and weights each city by how many records it holds, so the cities we hold most data for pull them hardest. Measured against that $111,180 figure rather than in dollars (22% of it), that spread is tighter than 68% of the roles we cover.

San Francisco, CA carries the highest median we hold for the role at $185,000; Louisville, KY the lowest at $79,954, a gap of $105,047. The middle half of those city medians, weighted by how many records each city contributes, spans $15,844, narrower than the $24,725 band within cities: for Computer Systems Analysts, where a record sits within its own metro separates our numbers more than which metro it came from.

No single metro carries most of this: the largest share is Atlanta, GA, with 68 of the 1,164 records we publish for this role (6%). Evidence clears 25 records in 12 of the 51 cities; for the rest, the city median we show rests on fewer records than that.

Salary Overview

Weighted average across all cities with available data. Based on 1164 data points.

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