Compared with the local labor market
Computer Systems Manager pay vs. the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ area
Across all employers in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ area, the median wage for Computer and Information Systems Managers — about 62,430 people — is $215,300. Law Department pays a median base salary of $161,442 for this role, 25% below that figure — about the 20th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
Where Law Department sits in the local pay range
$139,610
$171,950
$215,300
$285,570
$322,410
Law Department median · $161,442
The bar is the range of annual wages for Computer and Information Systems Managers across every employer in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ area, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Law Department’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Computer and Information Systems Managers — about 670,570 people — is $175,140. Law Department’s median base salary is 8% below that national figure, about the 41st percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.
$107,550
$138,060
$175,140
$220,730
$297,510
Law Department median · $161,442
Local and national wages differ for reasons beyond how well a job pays — cost of living, the mix of employers, and local demand for the occupation all move the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ range relative to the national one.
Computed over the 10 of 11 people in this role paid at least $25,000 in base salary. The rest are part-year or part-time records, whose actual pay isn’t comparable to a full-time annual wage.
Median total compensation for this role at Law Department is $153,956, which includes overtime and employer-paid benefits. The benchmark above excludes both, so total compensation is deliberately not compared against it.
Benchmark: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025). BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) covers all employers in the area — private, non-profit, and government alike — so this is a comparison against the whole local labor market for the occupation, not against private-sector pay. OEWS wages are straight-time pay and exclude overtime, shift differentials, and employer-paid benefits, so the government figure shown here is base pay on the same basis. Total compensation is not comparable to it. Job titles are matched to the closest standard occupation, so the comparison is between similar work rather than an identical job classification.