ITIL salary: $140K median
The median advertised ITIL salary is $140K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $101K to $175K: counted from 93 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range: about $67 an hour or $11,667 a month. A tenth of the postings offer $195K or more. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.
Check an offer against these figuresAll ITIL jobs
$140Kmedian advertised salary
$101K – $175Kmiddle half of roles
$141Kaverage advertised salary
93roles counted
ITIL salary by location
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area | $173K | 15 |
| 🇺🇸California | $160K | 33 |
| 🇺🇸United States | $140K | 88 |
Skills that pay more for ITIL roles
| Skill | Median with it | Above the median | Postings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Generative AI | $182K | +$42K | 9 |
| Terraform | $178K | +$38K | 11 |
| GCP | $178K | +$38K | 9 |
| Ansible | $178K | +$38K | 11 |
| Root cause analysis | $174K | +$34K | 22 |
Top-paying companies
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| Waymo | $195K | 6 |
| Netskope | $162K | 3 |
| Samsara | $128K | 3 |
| Crusoe | $122K | 3 |
| Re:Build Manufacturing | $101K | 7 |
| Rocket Lab | $92K | 3 |
| Wilson Elser - Business & Legal Professionals | $85K | 4 |
Highest-paying open ITIL roles
All ITIL jobs- Head of Technical ServicesWaymo · 🇺🇸Mountain View, CA, USA$226K - $278KLead and abovePythonJavaGCP
- IT Director, Infrastructure and OperationsHeartflow · 🇺🇸Rohnert Park, California$220K - $270KLead and aboveAzureAWSCISM
- Enterprise Architecture Process LeadMizuho · 🇺🇸NYC (1285)$200K - $260KLead and aboveSQLTableauPower BI
- Principal SREBackblaze · 🇺🇸Remote - US$215K - $250KRemoteLead and aboveGoPythonDocker
- Senior Technical Incident ManagerQube Research & Technologies · 🇺🇸New York$180K - $250KSeniorPythonJiraITIL
- Director, Global IT Infrastructure and OperationsAmyris, Inc. · Emeryville$176K - $237KLead and aboveAzureLLMCI/CD
- Director, ITPantheon · 🇺🇸United States (Remote)$167K - $232KRemoteLead and aboveJiraPMPCISSP
- Senior IT EngineerPerplexity · 🇺🇸San Francisco$150K - $230KSeniorPythonBashITIL
- Manager, Enterprise ApplicationsZoox · 🇺🇸Foster City, CA$184K - $221KPythonJavaScriptAgile
- Customer Success Manager, Public Sector & Defence (Top Secret Clearance)Cohere · 🇨🇦Ottawa$150K - $215KPythonJavaScriptC++
- Network Operations ManagerWaymo · 🇺🇸Mountain View CA$175K - $215KPythonTerraformAnsible
- Sr. Manager - SREBackblaze · 🇺🇸Remote - US$178K - $210KRemoteSeniorGCPAzureLinux
- Senior Technical Project Manager - East RegionCoreWeave · 🇺🇸Richmond, VA / Columbus, OH$157K - $210KSeniorPMPITILData centers
- IT Manager, ManufacturingSkydio · 🇺🇸Hayward, California, United States$157K - $210KPythonTerraformLinux
- Senior Manager, Global IT OperationsOneTrust · 🇺🇸Atlanta, Georgia$139K - $209KSenior.NETJiraPower BI
- Senior Production Engineer ICoreWeave · 🇺🇸Sunnyvale, CA$153K - $204KSeniorPythonTerraformGCP
- Principal Cloud Security EngineerRocket Lab · 🇺🇸Long Beach, CA$152K - $203KLead and abovePythonPostgreSQLTerraform
- Data Center Operations CoordinatorTogether AI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$150K - $200KExcelJiraITIL
- Director, Enterprise IT & ApplicationsHawkEye 360 · 🇺🇸Herndon, VA$155K - $200KLead and aboveJiraCISSPITIL
- Senior Manager Application SupportWilson Elser - Business & Legal Professionals · 🇺🇸New York, New York$175K - $200KSeniorITILData governanceMicrosoft 365
Questions about ITIL pay
- What is the average ITIL salary?
- $141K a year on average and $140K at the median, across 93 open ITIL postings at companies that state pay (November 2026). The median is the better guide: a few very high offers pull the average up.
- What is the typical range?
- The middle half of the postings offer $101K to $175K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
- Which companies advertise the highest ITIL pay?
- Waymo ($195K), Netskope ($162K), Samsara ($128K), by the median of their open postings that state pay (three postings or more).
- Is an itil a high-paying job?
- The median ITIL posting advertises $140K a year, less than the median of all 55,899 job postings with pay on Jobs Every Hour ($174K). That is 20% below the middle of the market.
- How much can you earn as an itil?
- A tenth of the postings offer $195K a year or more; the highest open ITIL role advertises up to $278K. Pay rises with level: see the table by level.
- What is the ITIL salary per hour and per month?
- The median of $140K a year is about $67 an hour (2,080 working hours) and $11,667 a month before tax. The middle half of postings: $49 to $84 an hour.
- Which skills pay more for ITIL roles?
- Postings that ask for Generative AI (+$42K, 9 postings), Terraform (+$38K, 11 postings), GCP (+$38K, 9 postings) advertise more than the $140K median of all ITIL postings with pay.
- Where do these figures come from?
- From the pay ranges employers print in their own job postings, read from their careers pages every hour. The midpoint of each range is counted. These are advertised ranges for open roles, mostly in the United States and in US dollars, not what people are actually paid.
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The median advertised salary for ITIL roles at companies is $140K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $101K to $175K. Counted from 93 open job postings that state pay, November 2026. Source: Jobs Every Hour, https://jobseveryhour.com/salaries/itil/
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