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Computer Systems Analysts

SOC 15-1211 · 2024-2034

Analyze science, engineering, business, and other data processing problems to develop and implement solutions to complex applications problems, system administration issues, or network concerns. Perform systems management and integration functions, improve existing computer systems, and review computer system capabilities, workflow, and schedule limitations. May analyze or recommend commercially available software.

How the U.S. Department of Labor describes this work. Published in English only.

What California expects of this job

Typical pay in California
$131,295per year
Projected openings
41,500
Projected change
+9.7%
Usually needs
Bachelor's degree

Bright Outlook — a U.S. Department of Labor designation
Rapid Growth

The Department's own designation, made from its national projections. It is not this project's assessment and it is not California's: every other figure on this page comes from California's projection, which can point the other way and for some occupations does.

Skills this work uses most

O*NET, the U.S. Department of Labor's occupation database, rates how important each of these is to this work, and they are listed in that order, most important first. The ratings themselves are not shown, because the data carries the number without the scale it was measured on. The names are as published, in English.

  1. Speaking
  2. Reading Comprehension
  3. Critical Thinking
  4. Systems Analysis
  5. Systems Evaluation
  6. Active Listening

Pay by region

RegionTypical pay in CaliforniaProjected openings
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara MSA (San Benito and Santa Clara Counties)$165,1705,810
San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City MD (San Francisco and San Mateo Counties)$153,0814,570
Oakland-Fremont-Berkeley MD (Alameda and Contra Costa Counties)$146,4862,940
San Rafael MD (Marin County)$140,773140
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale MD (Los Angeles County)$130,6687,710
Anaheim-Santa Ana-Irvine MD (Orange County)$129,4823,100
Santa Maria-Santa Barbara MSA (Santa Barbara County)$127,462520
Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura MSA (Ventura County)$126,784480
Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom MSA (El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento, and Yolo Counties)$125,6342,120
Stockton-Lodi MSA (San Joaquin County)$120,817290
Hanford-Corcoran MSA (Kings County)$118,56750
Santa Rosa-Petaluma MSA (Sonoma County)$118,567170
San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad MSA (San Diego County)$116,2663,790
Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario MSA (Riverside and San Bernardino Counties)$112,8661,610
Vallejo MSA (Solano County)$112,383140
Salinas MSA (Monterey County)$112,065200
Santa Cruz-Watsonville MSA (Santa Cruz County)$111,654220
Napa MSA (Napa County)$111,11070
San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles MSA (San Luis Obispo County)$109,980140
Bakersfield-Delano MSA (Kern County)$103,694400
Yuba City MSA (Sutter and Yuba Counties)$103,06750
Fresno MSA (Fresno and Madera Counties)$102,851420
Visalia MSA (Tulare County)$102,523100
Redding MSA (Shasta County)$100,65370
El Centro MSA (Imperial County)$98,97930
North Valley-Northern Mountains Region (Colusa, Glenn, Lassen, Modoc, Nevada, Plumas, Sierra, Siskiyou, Tehama, and Trinity Counties)$98,95880
Eastern Sierra-Mother Lode Region (Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, Inyo, Mariposa, Mono, and Tuolumne Counties)$95,75340
Chico MSA (Butte County)$90,638130
North Coast Region (Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, and Mendocino Counties)$85,73870
Merced MSA (Merced County)$84,48580
Modesto MSA (Stanislaus County)$84,485160

What the pay actually ranges across

The lowest-paid tenth earn under
$81,325
A quarter earn under
$103,981
Half earn under
$131,295
Three quarters earn under
$164,931
The highest-paid tenth earn over
$186,858

A median is one point. These are the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics' 2026 figures for California, and they say how far apart the people doing this job actually are. Read them as the spread across everyone already in the work — not as a starting wage and not as a promise about where anyone lands.

Similar work

O*NET, the U.S. Department of Labor's occupation database, names these as occupations involving work similar to this one — its own reading of the job, not a grouping by code. They keep O*NET's order, and only those California publishes a projection for are shown.

OccupationTypical pay in CaliforniaProjected openingsProjected change
Software Developers$179,292207,260+18.4%
Computer Occupations, All Other$138,20359,320+11.1%
Database Administrators$116,2253,800+1.4%
Database Architects$174,9233,880+9.5%
Computer and Information Systems Managers$221,95282,270+16.5%
Network and Computer Systems Administrators$109,42011,510-4.5%

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