Guide to Cyber Security Salary in 2022

Qubit Labs Tech Talk
2 min readNov 3, 2022

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Who is a Cyber Security Specialist?

Cyber security engineers are responsible for monitoring, detecting, investigating, analyzing, and responding to security events. They also protect the system from cyber attacks, threats, and vulnerabilities.

Such narrow-profiled specialists are gaining popularity and high demand among IT companies. This article will help you to understand the average salaries of cyber security engineers in the USA and worldwide.

Cyber Security Salary in the USA

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We have chosen a few of the most famous American states based on our investigations and calculated the average salary of cyber security engineers.

  • Florida -$120,000
  • Georgia -$95,725
  • New York -$132,611
  • Texas -$111,300
  • California -$117,000
  • New Jersey -$112,000
  • Virginia -$111,218
  • North Carolina -$105,660
  • Ohio -$113,762
  • Michigan -$116,922
  • Illinois -$63,473
  • Pennsylvania -$139,000
  • Arizona -$114,000
  • Washington — $116,500

Cyber Security Salary Worldwide

https://qubit-labs.com/cyber-security-specialist-salary-worldwide-guide-by-qubit-labs/

According to popular salaries resources and our investigations, we have calculated the average annual salary of cyber security engineers from the most famous IT destinations:

  • Canada — $95,698
  • India -$10,500
  • Australia -$132,000
  • Philippines -$13,900
  • Kenya -$13,000
  • Singapore -$56,040
  • UK -$56,400
  • Germany -$57,514
  • Japan -$51,600
  • Ukraine -$18,700
  • Poland -$32,742
  • Georgia -$18,833
  • Moldova -$8,300
  • Romania -$13,855
  • Kazakhstan -$14,000
  • Azerbaijan — $14,633

Average Cyber Security Engineer Salary

Overall, North America’s average cyber security engineer salary is around $100,000 yearly. Western Europe has slightly lower rates, equally $54,405 per year. Eastern Europe has one of the most affordable salaries among cyber security specialists — $25,337. In Southern and Central Asia, the average salary of cyber security experts is about $35,659.

If you would like to see more numbers and details about cyber security engineer’s salary, find it in our Qubit Labs blog.

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