Operations Analyst Salary 2026,
What Operations Analysts Actually Earn

How much do operations analysts make in 2026?

Operations analysts are counted in the BLS management analysts series: OEWS May 2025 puts SOC 13-1111 at a national median of $101,860 a year ($48.97 an hour), with the bottom 10% near $60,640 and the top 10% at $171,640. That series is large and broad — 898,280 workers — and it is heavily weighted toward management consultants, whose pay structures differ from those of in-house analysts. Say that plainly: an operations analyst employed inside a company typically sits below this median early in a career, while consultants at established firms sit above it. The role itself is the quantitative examination of how work gets done: modelling processes, analysing throughput, capacity, cost and quality data, identifying where a system loses time or money, and building the business case for changing it. What separates well-paid operations analysts from the rest is the ability to connect analysis to a decision someone will actually make. Analysts who produce dashboards are priced as reporting staff; analysts who identify a change, quantify its value and see it implemented are priced as business capability. Industry matters too, with logistics, manufacturing, financial services and healthcare paying above retail and non-profit. Employment is projected to grow 8.8% through 2034 with roughly 98,100 openings a year. → Full operations analyst career guide, career path, credentials & placement →

Note: $101,860 blends every experience level and every setting in this occupation. For pay by level alone, see Pay by Level below.

Published (BLS): BLS OEWS May 2025, SOC 13-1111, United States national estimate. Public, methodologically rigorous, but sampled on a rolling 3-year basis and published ~10 months after collection — so it reflects wages that are already 1–2 years old by the time you read them.

Level and certification medians: distributed across the published BLS percentile range for this SOC code (P10 through P90) according to the credential tiers this occupation actually hires at. They are modeled reference points, not separately surveyed wages.

State and metro figures: modeled — the BLS national median multiplied by the GlobalCybers state wage index, and for metros by the published metro index for that state. They are estimates of local pay, not BLS state or metropolitan-area observations, and are labelled as modeled in the tables below.

No verified placement sample:GlobalCybers does not yet publish a placement median for this role, so no "verified" figure appears anywhere on this page.

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