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What the pay looks like
Median
$126,710
Bottom tenth
$69,240
Top tenth
$195,190
The national median is $126,710 a year, the bottom tenth earn $69,240 or less and the top tenth $195,190 or more. There is no published wage figure for cryptanalysts, so these are the 2025 figures for mathematicians, the occupation where the federal job database lists cryptographer as a job title. The agency does not publish its own salary medians.