Median salaries within cybersecurity hover around $100,000 to $159,000. Some top cyber security experts make salaries of $500,00, but this is far from the norm. Entry-level cyber security jobs for analysts are $60,000 to $70,000 on average. The highest paying jobs within cybersecurity are chief information security officers, deputy CISOs, cybersecurity sales engineers, and lead software security engineers. Average salaries for these positions are around $200,000 and up.