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Information Security Analysts pay in Rapid City, SD and San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for Information Security Analysts is $108,030 per year in Rapid City, SD. It is $176,120 per year in San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA. Rapid City, SD is 38.7% below San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA on the published median.
Both rows use SOC 15-1212 and the same annual wage metric. Median means the middle of each area's published wage spread. It is not one worker's pay. The larger median is not proof that one place gives a better job or a better result. It is one wage fact from one source period.
BLS lists 90 wage and salary jobs in Rapid City, SD and 2,280 in San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA. Those are survey job counts, not open posts. Read pay, job scale, local share, and price level as separate facts before you make a choice.
Evidence: bls-oews-may-2025 · Rule: same-soc-same-metric-pair · nominal-median-gap · employment-not-openings