What is the average Chicago salary?

Based on 10 jobs with salary data, the average Chicago salary ranges from $93.3k – $149.4k per year.

How do Chicago salaries compare to the market?

Chicago roles pay 16% below the average salary of $115.4k – $174.5k for all jobs listed on Cybersecurity Jobs List.

How are Chicago salaries calculated?

Salary figures are based on published job postings with salary data, normalized to annual USD equivalents. Statistical outliers are removed using interquartile range (IQR) filtering to ensure accuracy. Only positions with at least 5 data points are included.

Salaries in Chicago

The average salary in Chicago is $93k – $149k per year, based on 10 jobs.

Median salary

$111.9k

Based on 10 jobs · 16% less than the average salary on Cybersecurity Jobs List

25th percentile

$74.3k

Average

$121.3k

75th percentile

$166.4k

ChicagoAverage salary on Cybersecurity Jobs List

$74.3k$174.5k

Top paying titles in Chicago

Highest paying job titles in Chicago, ranked by average salary.

Information Security

Avg. $96.8k – $159.5k · 6 jobs

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Top paying skills in Chicago

Highest paying skills in Chicago, ranked by average salary.

GRC

Avg. $109.7k – $181.9k · 3 jobs

Incident Response

Avg. $106.4k – $159.0k · 3 jobs

NIST

Avg. $101.7k – $139.3k · 3 jobs

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Top paying companies

Booz Allen Hamilton

Avg. $84.6k – $184.5k · 18 jobs

Visa

Avg. $122.0k – $180.5k · 15 jobs

Peraton

Avg. $113.5k – $181.6k · 13 jobs

Accenture B.V. Company

Avg. $105.3k – $204.9k · 10 jobs

CORP-Corporate Office

Avg. $108.3k – $180.9k · 10 jobs

GD Information Technology, Inc.

Avg. $133.9k – $174.3k · 9 jobs

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Other locations

New York City

Avg. $120.7k – $175.9k · 23 jobs

Washington, D.C.

Avg. $118.9k – $199.6k · 14 jobs

San Francisco

Avg. $140.2k – $204.0k · 10 jobs

Austin

Avg. $125.7k – $179.0k · 8 jobs

San Diego

Avg. $104.9k – $176.4k · 8 jobs

Fort Meade

Avg. $121.5k – $193.3k · 7 jobs

Chicago salary FAQs

All salary figures are normalized to USD annual equivalents. Averages are based on published jobs with salary data and filtered for statistical outliers.