EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:

Cyber security salaries have been steadily rising as a result of the difficulty of finding the talent needed to fulfill highly specialized roles. Rockstar CISOs are expected to land salary offers of $241,000 in 2018, putting them in the 95th percentile for CISO salary ranges, according to Robert Half Technology’s 2018 Salary Guide released this week. In addition, the midpoint range for CISOs and information systems security managers have improved over the past couple of years. For example, the Dark Reading 2016 Security Salary Survey found the median annual salary of IT security management was $127,000.

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