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U.S. BLS Ranks 22 High-Paying Tech Jobs

By Business Insider
August 14, 2019
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The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment Statistics program provides data on the number of people employed in various occupations and industries and what they typically earn. That data shows that the median annual earnings as of May 2018, the most recent period for which data is available, for 22 occupations that rely heavily on computer science and data analysis in their work are above the overall national median of $38,640 reported by the BLS.

Here are those tech occupations, ranked from lowest to highest median annual pay, along with the number of people employed in those jobs:

	Occupation	Annual Salary	Total Employed in the U.S.
22.	Computer operators	$45,840	34,700
21.	Statistical assistants	$48,330	11,010
20.	Computer-user support specialists	$50,980	630,700
19.	Computer-network support specialists	$62,770	181,360
18.	Commercial and industrial designers	$66,590	33,200
17.	Web developers	$69,430	127,300
16.	Network and computer-systems administrators	$82,050	366,250
15.	Postsecondary computer-science teachers	$82,220	32,430
14.	Operations research analysts	$83,390	104,200
13.	Computer programmers	$84,280	230,470
12.	Statisticians	$87,780	39,920
11.	Computer systems analysts	$88,740	587,970
10.	Database administrators	$90,070	110,090
9.	All other computer occupations	$90,270	381,380
8.	Electrical engineers	$96,640	186,490
7.	Information security analysts	$98,350	108,060
6.	Applications software developers	$103,620	903,160
5.	Computer-network architects	$109,020	152,670
4.	Systems software developers	$110,000	405,330
3.	Computer hardware engineers	$114,600	60,750
2.	Computer and information research scientists	$118,370	30,070
1.	Computer and information systems managers	$142,530	391,430

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