5. Boston: The oldest and the capital city of Massachusetts, Boston comes fifth in the list. Boston pays an average annual salary $99,099 among 186 jobs and a Median annual salary of $100,000 to the IT professionals. The city pays high range annual salaries to professionals like Director of application development ($300,000), Rails director ($208,333), Rails engineering manager ($147,500) Senior sales engineer for health care ($145,000) and QA automation manager ($140,000). Companies like Newbury Comics, Mobile17 and Bain & Company are also based in Boston.

6. Los Angeles: The second most populous city in the United States after New York, Los Angeles surprisingly takes the sixth position in the list. Located in Southern California, the nicknamed city of Angels pays an average annual salary of $96,705 among 220 jobs. IT professionals in LA bag a Median annual salary of $97,500. High range salaries are bagged by professionals like Global network engineer ($187,500), Director of engineering ($175,000), Director of ad platform technology ($175,000), Digital forensic examiner ($167,500) and software sales engineer ( $162,500).