IT Manager Salary in Massachusetts (2026)

Worth knowing: Boston has emerged as the country's second-largest cleared IT cluster after the DC/MD/NoVa region. Raytheon Technologies Waltham (RTX, Fortune 100 defense, ~14K MA employees) plus MIT Lincoln Laboratory Lexington (FFRDC, ~4,500 employees, ~$1B+ federal contracts) plus Draper Laboratory Cambridge (engineering R&D, classified work) plus Hanscom Air Force Base Lexington (Air Force C5ISR) together create substantial cleared CIO + CISO + senior IT manager career paths. Senior cleared IT managers with TS/SCI plus polygraph routinely clear $185-295K TC; cleared CISO track at Raytheon $245-395K. Fidelity Investments IT (~30K Boston employees, substantial IT organization supporting $5T+ AUM trade processing + investor portals + advisor tools) operates one of the country's larger asset management IT organizations. State Street IT (~40K global employees, custody bank infrastructure at $40T+ AUC scale) drives parallel financial-services IT depth. Mass General Brigham IT (~80K employees, the country's largest single-state hospital IT organization by patient volume) supports Epic EHR + clinical research IT + biomedical data infrastructure. Akamai Technologies HQ Cambridge (CDN + edge computing, ~10K global employees) operates infrastructure IT leadership at scale. The MA combined effective rate at $185K senior IT manager comp is 5% flat — but at $1.117M+ CIO/VP TC the Fair Share 4% surtax pushes combined top to 9%.