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SOC 15-1212, wage year 2025-26

Information Security Analysts prevailing wage by area

Short answer

Across 530 US areas, the median Level 1 prevailing wage for information security analysts is $33.69 an hour ($70,065 a year) and the median Level 4 wage is $62.30 an hour ($129,574 a year). Pick an area below for all four levels.

Ten highest Level 2 wages

AreaLevel 1Level 2Level 3Level 4
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA$51.00$74.50$98.00$121.50
Merced, CA$49.74$72.86$95.98$119.10
Salinas, CA$48.84$71.96$95.09$118.21
San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA$52.35$66.03$79.71$93.39
Monroe, LA$32.45$64.66$96.86$129.07
Boulder, CO$49.70$64.62$79.55$94.47
Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA$52.32$63.60$74.89$86.17
Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA$51.37$62.78$74.18$85.59
Yakima, WA$48.72$60.56$72.40$84.24
Western Washington nonmetropolitan area$48.40$60.14$71.88$83.62

Hourly dollars. Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Foreign Labor Certification (OFLC), prevailing wage data, wage year 2025-26. An LCA is not an H-1B approval and not a job opening.

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