What is the average salary for Network and Computer Systems Administrators?

The average salary for Network and Computer Systems Administrators is $101K per year, weighted across all cities with data and based on 357 public records.

Which cities pay Network and Computer Systems Administrators the most?

The highest-paying cities for Network and Computer Systems Administrators include San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Princeton, NJ.

What skills do Network and Computer Systems Administrators need?

Key skills for Network and Computer Systems Administrators include Domain Expertise, Problem Solving, Communication, Collaboration, Analytical Thinking.

Network and Computer Systems Administrators

Salary benchmarks based on 357 public records across 21 cities.

What do Network and Computer Systems Administrators do?

Install, configure, and maintain an organization’s local area network (LAN), wide area network (WAN), data communications network, operating systems, and physical and virtual servers. Perform system monitoring and verify the integrity and availability of hardware, network, and server resources and systems. Review system and application logs and verify completion of scheduled jobs, including system backups. Analyze network and server resource consumption and control user access. Install and upgrade software and maintain software licenses. May assist in network modeling, analysis, planning, and coordination between network and data communications hardware and software. Excludes “Information Security Analysts” (15-1212), “Computer Network Support Specialists” (15-1231), and “Computer User Support Specialists” (15-1232).

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, SOC 2018 (SOC 15-1244)

What our data shows for Network and Computer Systems Administrators

RoleHue publishes 357 salary records for Network and Computer Systems Administrators, across 21 cities. Weighted by how many records each city contributes, the band runs from $94,923 at the 25th percentile to $123,867 at the 75th, a spread of $28,944 around $101,334. 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 $101,334 figure rather than in dollars (29% of it), that spread is mid-pack among the roles we cover.

San Francisco, CA carries the highest median we hold for the role at $185,000; Indianapolis, IN the lowest at $76,565, a gap of $108,435. The middle half of those city medians, weighted by how many records each city contributes, spans $20,613, narrower than the $28,944 band within cities: for Network and Computer Systems Administrators, 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 Plano, TX, with 44 of the 357 records we publish for this role (12%). Evidence clears 25 records in 2 of the 21 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 357 data points.

$95K

P25

$101K

P50

$124K

P75

P25 $95K P50 $101K P75 $124K

Top Paying Cities

San Francisco, CA

$185K n=13 New York, NY

$137K n=20 Princeton, NJ

$135K n=10 Santa Clara, CA

$132K n=13 Sunnyvale, CA

$132K n=17 Dallas, TX

$120K n=10 San Jose, CA

$108K n=11 Portland, OR

$106K n=13 Chicago, IL

$102K n=12 Bellevue, WA

$93K n=22

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Source: U.S. Department of Labor disclosure filings for Network and Computer Systems Administrators 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.