California / Information Technology Manager
Role across California
Information Technology Manager
Lead staff and operations — set priorities, allocate resources, and oversee program delivery.
1,690 people hold the Information Technology Manager role across 99 departments in California, with a median total compensation of $148,936. Among 8 jurisdictions where this role is reported, California ranks #3 by median pay.
- Employees
- 1,690
- Median pay
- $148,936
- Departments
- 99
- Cross-jurisdiction
- #3 of 8
Compared with the local labor market
Information Technology Manager pay vs. California
Across all employers in California, the median wage for Computer and Information Systems Managers — about 94,720 people — is $218,290. California pays a median base salary of $146,397 for this role, 33% below that figure — about the 16th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
Where California sits in the local pay range
The bar is the range of annual wages for Computer and Information Systems Managers across every employer in California, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows California’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. California’s median base salary is 16% below that national figure, about the 31st percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.
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 California range relative to the national one.
Computed over the 1,573 of 1,690 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 California is $148,936, 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.
Compare jurisdictions
Information Technology Manager pay in other jurisdictions
Where Information Technology Managers are paid most
Median total compensation for comparable Information Technology Manager roles in other jurisdictions (highest first). Titles are matched by normalized name across sources, not by identical job classification, and pay is not cost-of-living adjusted. Each bar links to that jurisdiction’s page for this role.
Within California
Departments with this role
Largest California departments for this role
Departments in California employing the most people in this role. Each bar links to that department’s page for the role.