What is the average salary for Information Security Analysts?

The average salary for Information Security Analysts is $159K per year, weighted across all cities with data and based on 262 public records.

Which cities pay Information Security Analysts the most?

The highest-paying cities for Information Security Analysts include San Jose, CA, San Francisco, CA, Mountain View, CA.

What skills do Information Security Analysts need?

Key skills for Information Security Analysts include Domain Expertise, Problem Solving, Communication, Collaboration, Analytical Thinking.

Information Security Analysts

Salary benchmarks based on 262 public records across 14 cities.

What do Information Security Analysts do?

Plan, implement, upgrade, or monitor security measures for the protection of computer networks and information. Assess system vulnerabilities for security risks and propose and implement risk mitigation strategies. May ensure appropriate security controls are in place that will safeguard digital files and vital electronic infrastructure. May respond to computer security breaches and viruses. Excludes “Computer Network Architects” (15-1241).

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, SOC 2018 (SOC 15-1212)

What our data shows for Information Security Analysts

RoleHue publishes 262 salary records for Information Security Analysts, across 14 cities. Weighted by how many records each city contributes, the band runs from $127,634 at the 25th percentile to $184,156 at the 75th, a spread of $56,522 around $159,452. 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 $159,452 figure rather than in dollars (35% of it), that spread is wider than 62% of the roles we cover.

San Jose, CA carries the highest median we hold for the role at $195,462; Atlanta, GA the lowest at $104,562, a gap of $90,900. The middle half of those city medians, weighted by how many records each city contributes, spans $37,446, narrower than the $56,522 band within cities: for Information Security 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 New York, NY, with 45 of the 262 records we publish for this role (17%). Evidence clears 25 records in 3 of the 14 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 262 data points.

$128K

P25

$159K

P50

$184K

P75

P25 $128K P50 $159K P75 $184K

Top Paying Cities

San Jose, CA

$195K n=12 San Francisco, CA

$185K n=16 Mountain View, CA

$183K n=10 New York, NY

$182K n=45 Charlotte, NC

$170K n=13 Jersey City, NJ

$166K n=13 Seattle, WA

$164K n=23 Arlington, VA

$153K n=12 Irving, TX

$151K n=18 Dallas, TX

$150K n=30

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Source: U.S. Department of Labor disclosure filings for Information Security Analysts roles, plus anonymous submissions.

How we calculate benchmarks

Benchmarks last recalculated: 2026-06-08. That is when we recomputed the statistics · the underlying filings are older. See methodology for how current the data is.