IT Salaries By State

Information Technology is one of the fastest growing industries in the U.S. with job
growth expected to exceed 22% by 2020. So, where should people be looking for IT NH
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jobs? Below you'll find a breakdown of IT salaries state-by-state. VT
$66k
- ME
$59k -
WA $59k
- MA
$69k MT ND -
- - $80k
$55k $59k MN
OR - k
- ID
- SD $49k WI
- MI NY - $80 RI
$64k - $59k - -
$44k WY $61k
- $50k $67k PA - $64k
$55k IA
NE - OH CT
NV - $65k IL IN - k -
- $49k - - $64k 3 DC $77k
$51k UT $75k $64k - $6 -
CA
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$52k
CO
- KA MO WV k $95k
- $59k - - k VA - $67 NJ
$71k $61k $65k KY - $57 -
$72k
NC - $63k
NV NM
OK
- AK TN - $62k DE
- - SC - $66k -
$55k $61k - MD $58k
$58k $68k MS AL GA -
- - - $68k
$70k $67k $76k
TX LA
- - *Salary data from Indeed.com
$64k $59k
FL
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$62k
AK
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The
$49k
HI
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$41k

Top 5 States
for IT Jobs
District of Columbia
The average IT salary in DC is $95k, which
is 25% higher than the national average
for IT salaries.

New York
New York is home to more than 18,000 IT firms, with a
median income of nearly $80k in the emerging tech hot
spot of Poughkeepsie-Newburgh-Middletown.

Massachusetts
Given that Massachusetts is home of MIT, the seventh highest
ranked university in the nation, it makes sense that Massachusetts
offers one of the highest salaries for IT jobs at $80k.

Connecticut
The average IT salary in Connecticut is $77k, which is 15%
higher than average IT salaries for job postings nationwide.

Georgia
Georgia is home to almost 13,000 IT firms, most based in
and around Atlanta, with a median income of $76k.

The Top 5 Cities With

The Most Tech Jobs
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA
Share of employment: 30%
Share of output: 47.5%
Annual average wage: $101,640
Largest advanced industry: Computer
systems design and related services
Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA
Share of employment: 16%
Share of output: 32.6%
Annual average wage: $63,180
Largest advanced industry: Aerospace
product and parts manufacturing
Wichita, KS
Share of employment: 15.5%
Share of output: 27.4%
Annual average wage: $44,410
Largest advanced industry: Aerospace
product and parts manufacturing
Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI
Share of employment: 14.8%
Share of output: 24.8%
Annual average wage: $53,300
Largest advanced industry: Motor vehicle parts manufacturing

San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA
Share of employment: 14%
Share of output: 24.7%
Annual average wage: $80,960
Largest advanced industry: Computer
systems design and related services

Top Industries for IT

34% A 2013 study by CEB found that only about 1/3rd of IT professionals are
Employed
employed in the tech industry in the U.S., while the remaining 2/3rds are
66% in the tech industy
Employed employed in non-tech industries.
in the non-tech industy

Despite the high rate of IT professionals being employed in non-tech industries, the U.S.
still represents as the country with the largest job growth in the IT sector, having created
440,000 jobs at the time of the study.

Future Projections:
Healthcare and Technology

Healthcare is expected to see a 20% increase in its need for IT

professionals, driven largely by looming government regulations related to the
migration of health records into electronic formats. This increase contributes to
an overall 22% anticipated growth in IT jobs by 2020, despite
off-shoring of programming.

The Top Skills

for IT Professionals
Technical Skills in High Demand Non-Technical Skills
Puppet Critical thinking &
(open-source IT automation) analytical skills

Cybersecurity
Financial
management
Big Data

NoSQL Innovation &

collaboration

Hadoop
(open-source data analysis framework) Marketing &
communication
Salesforce
(CRM tool)
JIRA Leadership
(project and issue-tracking software)

Cloud

Information security

Python
(Programming language)

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