Emerging role · No. 25 fastest-growing
Computer and Information Systems Managers: job outlook 2025–35
BLS projects computer and information systems managers employment to grow 15.8% from 2025 to 2035 (No. 25 fastest), with 53,500 openings a year and a $175,140 median wage.
Data compiled 2026-10-09 · BLS 2025–35 · O*NET 31.0 · AEI May 2026
Projected growth, 2025–35
+15.8%
Typical entry education: Bachelor's degree.
BLS Employment Projections 2025–35
Job outlook
U.S. projections, BLS Employment Projections 2025–35
- +15.8%
Projected employment change, 2025–35
From 685,800 jobs in 2025 to 793,900 in 2035. All occupations: +3.5%.
BLS Employment Projections 2025–35
- 53,500
Openings per year, 2025–35 average
Includes openings from growth and from workers who retire or change occupations.
BLS Employment Projections 2025–35
- $175,140
Median annual wage, 2025
BLS Employment Projections 2025–35
- Bachelor's degree
Typical education for entry
BLS Employment Projections 2025–35
What BLS expects to change
Demand change - share increases as organizations increasingly rely on IT services, supporting an increased demand for computer and information systems managers to plan and oversee computer hardware and software needs.
BLS note on factors affecting computer and information systems managers employment, Table 1.12, BLS Employment Projections 2025–35.
Primary profiles: BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook · O*NET OnLine
Core tasks
Highest-importance task statements, O*NET 31.0 Database
- Direct daily operations of department, analyzing workflow, establishing priorities, developing standards and setting deadlines.
- Meet with department heads, managers, supervisors, vendors, and others, to solicit cooperation and resolve problems.
- Review project plans to plan and coordinate project activity.
- Assign and review the work of systems analysts, programmers, and other computer-related workers.
- Provide users with technical support for computer problems.
Most important skills
Importance on a 1–5 scale, O*NET 31.0 Database
- Critical Thinking4.12
- Active Listening4.00
- Reading Comprehension4.00
- Judgment and Decision Making3.88
- Monitoring3.88
- Speaking3.88
AI exposure
How much of the work large language models touch
- 56%
High exposure (β, human-rated)
Share of the occupation's tasks an LLM could speed up by at least half at equal quality, with software-dependent tasks at half weight.
Eloundou et al., Science 2024
- 34.9%
Augmentation share of AI use
Share of global Claude.ai conversations on these tasks with a classified collaboration pattern (excluding unclassified conversations) where AI worked with the person rather than doing the task.
Anthropic Economic Index (May 2026)
See which computer and information systems managers tasks are exposed
Sources & methodology
Every figure on this page comes from the public datasets below. We do not edit the source values; derived figures are explained here.
- Emerging roles are the 30 occupations in the BLS fastest-growing occupations table (Table 1.3, 2025–35), ranked by projected percent change.
- Growth, openings, wage, and entry education are the BLS figures as published; openings include growth plus replacement needs.
- Tasks are O*NET 31.0 core task statements ranked by importance; skills are O*NET importance ratings (1–5).
- Exposure is the human-annotator β score from Eloundou et al.: the share of an occupation's O*NET tasks that a large language model could do at least 50% faster at equal quality, counting tasks that need extra software (E2) at half weight. We label β under 0.25 low, 0.25–0.5 moderate, and 0.5 or more high; these bands are ours, not the authors'.
- BLS occupations are matched to O*NET-SOC codes with the BLS O*NET-to-NEM crosswalk; where a BLS occupation spans several O*NET occupations, we average their values.
BLS Employment Projections 2025–35
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment Projections program. Occupational projections, 2025–35, and worker characteristics, 2025 (Table 1.2); fastest growing occupations (Table 1.3); factors affecting occupational utilization (Table 1.12).
Vintage: 2025–35 projections, released August 27, 2026. License: Public domain (U.S. federal government work). Retrieved 2026-10-09.
This page includes information from the O*NET 31.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. Metaintro has modified all or some of this information. USDOL/ETA has not approved, endorsed, or tested these modifications.
Vintage: O*NET 31.0, August 2026 release. License: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-10-09.
Eloundou, T., Manning, S., Mishkin, P., & Rock, D. (2024). "GPTs are GPTs: Labor market impact potential of LLMs." Science, 384(6702), 1306–1308. doi:10.1126/science.adj0998. Occupation- and task-level exposure data from the authors' public repository (openai/GPTs-are-GPTs).
Vintage: Published June 21, 2024; human annotations of O*NET tasks collected 2023. License: Data repository: MIT License. Retrieved 2026-10-09.
Anthropic Economic Index (May 2026)
Massenkoff, M., Lyubich, E., Sacher, S., Hitzig, Z., Zhang, S., Heller, R., & McCrory, P. (2026). "Anthropic Economic Index report: Cadences." Anthropic, June 26, 2026. Claude.ai usage metrics by occupation, global, May 2026.
Vintage: Release of June 26, 2026; Claude.ai conversations from May 2026. License: CC BY (data). Retrieved 2026-10-09.
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