Calculate Your Potential IT Salary

Today's information technology (IT) careers offer an incredible array of opportunity, variety, passion – and of course, earnings potential. As you may expect, there is a range of factors that influence what your IT salary could be, like years of experience, cost of living and regional market value. As you explore IT career path options, use the CompTIA IT Salary Calculator to estimate your salary and know your worth during your job search. The calculator includes salary data from 400 different metro areas, covering 85% of the U.S. population.

To begin, please select your current job (or desired IT occupation), your experience level and a location where you may want to work.

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Thanks for visiting the CompTIA information technology (IT) salary calculator. CompTIA compiled the underlying data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics May 2022 Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) Survey, the most recently available wage data at the metro area level. For combined BLS occupation categories, CompTIA applied estimates to report salary data for certain job roles. As noted, there are many factors that influence wages, including job level, industry sector and employer size, specialty skills, signing bonuses and other forms of additional compensation and more. Please source data to CompTIA and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.