
Salary Report - SAP - Administrator, Engineer - Chicago, IL - Average Experience
Salary Report
Information Technology Job
SAP
Application Professional
United States Location
Chicago - Gary - Kenosha
IL - IN - WI
USA Metropolitan Area
Competitive Position® Salary Report
Salary Average
$95,517
Experience Requirement
5 Years and 1 Month
Raise +1 Year
$2,632 at 2.76%
Salary and Number of Jobs

About Salary and Jobs
Salary Range :
At required Experience of 5 Years & 1 Month: $95,517 is Salary average; 50% of Jobs pay between $81,214 & $109,819; and, 5% of Jobs top $130,397.
Number of Jobs :
Most Jobs are available closest to the Salary Average.
Fewer Jobs are available at Lower and Higher Salaries.
Salary End Points :
$15,080 = minimum wage annual salary in the USA.
$187,699 = annual salary for the highest paying IT Job in the USA at the Top 2.5% Experience and Top 2.5% Salary.
Top Salaries
Top Percentile of Job market | Top Salary |
---|---|
2.5% | $137,081 |
5% | $130,397 |
10% | $122,692 |
25% | $109,819 |
33% | $104,650 |
50% | $95,517 |
Top Percentile of Job Market =
Number of Jobs Above the Top Salary
÷
Number of all Jobs at 5 Years and 1 Month Experience.
Salary Range and Jobs
Percentage of Jobs within Salary Lows and Highs
Percent of Job Market | Salary Range | |
---|---|---|
Low Salary | High Salary | |
10% | $92,852 | $98,181 |
25% | $88,760 | $102,273 |
33% | $86,383 | $104,650 |
50% | $81,214 | $109,819 |
67% | $75,003 | $116,031 |
95% | $53,953 | $137,081 |
Salary Average =
$95,517
Mid Point between each Low/High pair.
Percent of Job Market =
Number of Jobs with Salary between Low/High pair
÷
Number of all Jobs at 5 Years and 1 Month Experience.
Salary and Experience

Salary ±1 Year
Experience | Salary Average | Raise +1 Year |
---|---|---|
4 Years and 1 Month | $92,435 | $3,081 at 3.33% |
5 Years and 1 Month | $95,517 | $2,632 at 2.76% |
6 Years and 1 Month | $98,148 | $2,297 at 2.34% |
About Salary and Experience
Salary by Year :
Salary is lowest at entry level, increases rapidly with the first years of experience and approaches a ceiling as experience matures.
Salary and Experience Range :
Salary average rises with experience: $79,542 at the low experience of 1 Year and 4 Months; $95,517 at the average experience of 5 Years and 1 Month; and, $103,874 at the top experience of 8 Years and 10 Months.
Experience End Points :
0 = Entry Level.
11 Years and 1 Month = Top 2.5% Experience in the IT Job with the highest required experience in the USA.
Salary by Year
Experience | Salary Average | Raise +1 Year |
---|---|---|
2 Years | $83,596 | $4,777 at 5.71% |
3 Years | $88,373 | $3,780 at 4.28% |
4 Years | $92,153 | $3,126 at 3.39% |
5 Years | $95,279 | $2,664 at 2.8% |
6 Years | $97,943 | $2,322 at 2.37% |
7 Years | $100,265 | $2,057 at 2.05% |
8 Years | $102,322 | $1,847 at 1.81% |
Salary and Experience Range
95% of Jobs require Experience between the Low and Top
Experience | Salary Average | Raise +1 Year | |
---|---|---|---|
Low | 1 Year and 4 Months | $79,542 | $5,789 at 7.28% |
Average | 5 Years and 1 Month | $95,517 | $2,631 at 2.75% |
Top | 8 Years and 10 Months | $103,874 | $1,701 at 1.64% |
Qualifications
Description
This position involves the design, development, implementation and/or configuration of SAP enterprise application software in customer relationship management, enterprise resource planning, product life cycle management, supply chain management or other business system often focusing on data integration and/or enterprise reports.
Skills
The qualifications of this information technology Job:
- SAP enterprise application software;
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- Professional,
- Analyst, Administrator, Architect, Designer, Developer, Engineer, Support or Technician.
Characteristics
A+ Skills
Additional IT skills and US Cities requested in some job descriptions:
- Manager,
- 23% of job descriptions,
- Project Leader, Project Manager, Supervisor, Team Leader or Technical Lead;
- Graduate Degree,
- 8% of job descriptions,
- Master of Science in Computer Engineering, Master of Science in Computer Science, Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, MA/MS in Information Technology, MA/MS in Information Science, Master of Arts Degree, Master of Science Degree or Ph.D.;
- ABAP,
- 33% of job descriptions;
- Basis,
- 5% of job descriptions;
- SAP Business Objects,
- 3% of job descriptions;
- Java,
- 9% of job descriptions,
- Enterprise Java Beans (EJB), Java, Java Platform Enterprise Edition (Java EE), Java Platform Standard Edition (Java SE), JavaApplet, Java Database Call (JDBC), Java Development Kit (JDK), Java Messaging Service (JMS), Jbuilder, JavaServer Faces (JSF), JSP, Java Swing or Sun Certified Java Programmer;
- Oracle Database,
- 13% of job descriptions,
- Oracle, Oracle Certified Professional (OCP), Oracle Designer, Oracle Developer, Oracle Financials, Oracle Form, PL|SQL, Oracle Report or Oracle Tools;
- Software Quality Assurance,
- 8% of job descriptions;
- Computer Consulting Industry,
- 24% of job descriptions,
- Computer Consulting, Computer Network Consulting, Computer System Consulting or Information Technology Consulting;
- Finance Industry,
- 9% of job descriptions,
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Asset Management, Banking, Brokerage, Commodity Trading, Derivative Trading, Equity Trading, Financial, Insurance, Investment, Securities Trading, Stock Market or Wall Street
with
Business, Company, Corporation, Enterprise, Firm or Industry; - New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT-PA,
- 11% of jobs;
- Chicago-Gary-Kenosha, IL-IN-WI,
- 9% of jobs.
Location
Chicago - Gary - Kenosha, IL - IN - WI:
- Illinois,
- Addison, Arlington Heights, Aurora, Batavia, Barrington, Berwyn, Bollingbrook, Boone, Buffalo Grove, Burbank, Calumet City, Carol Stream, Carpentersville, Chicago Heights, Chicago, Cicero, Cook County, Crystal Lake, De Kalb County, De Kalb, Deerfield, Des Plaines, Downers Grove, DuPage County, East Chicago, Elgin, Elk Grove, Elk Grove Village, Elmhurst, Evanston, Geneva, Glendale Heights, Glenview, Grundy County, Hanover Park, Harvard, Harvey, Highland Park, Hines, Hinsdale, Hoffman Estates, Homewood, Itasca, Joliet, Kane County, Kankakee County, Kendall County, Lake County, Lake Forest, Lansing, Libertyville, Lincolnshire, Lombard, Maywood, McHenry County, Morris, Mount Prospect, Mundelein, Naperville, Niles, Norridge, North Chicago, Northbrook, Oak Brook, Oak Forest, Oak Lawn, Oak Park, Ogle, Orland Park, Palatine, Park Forest, Park Ridge, Plano, Riverside, Riverwoods, Rochelle, Rockford, Rolling, Romeoville, Rosemont, Schaumburg, Schiller Park, Skokie, St Charles, Streamwood, Tinley Park, Vernon Hills, Warrenville, Waukegan, Westchester, Wheaton, Wheeling, Will County, Wilmette, Winebago, Wood Dale and Woodridge;
- Indiana,
- Cedar Lake, Crown Point, East Chicago, Gary, Hammond, Hobart, Lake County, Lake, Merrilvilee, Merrilville, Portage, Porter County, and Valparaiso;
- Wisconsin,
- Kenosha County and Kenosha.
These locations are all included in the Chicago, IL metropolitan area as defined by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB).