IT Security Director Salary in Los Angeles, CA

How much does an IT Security Director make?

As of December 01, 2024, the average annual pay of IT Security Director in Los Angeles, CA is $212,735. While Salary.com is seeing that IT Security Director salary in Los Angeles, CA can go up to $249,284 or down to $178,602, but most earn between $194,869 and $231,866. Salary.com shows the average base salary (core compensation), as well as the average total cash compensation for the job of IT Security Director in the United States.

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Assists with the designs and implementation of disaster recovery and business continuity plans, procedures, audits, and enhancements.

January 22, 2023

Review and provide inputs on software procurement process including in house IT solutions, off the shelf software products and/or contracted software development.

February 08, 2023

Demonstrated ability to work with business users to understand their processes and requirements to be able to create the appropriate information architecture, taxonomy, and solution approach.

March 13, 2023

Leads strategic security planning to achieve business goals by prioritizing defense initiatives and coordinating the evaluation, deployment, and management of current and future security technologies using a risk-based assessment methodology.

March 16, 2023

Provide the overall direction to the IT Information Security organization as well as lead the day-to-day disaster recovery planning, security architecture, governance, compliance, data privacy, and operations teams.

March 26, 2023

Developing and maintaining an effective and efficient Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) and Electronically Stored Information (ESI) collection and management capability that will identify, contain and resolve information security incidents, meet compliance and reporting obligations, and uphold chain of custody and rules of civil procedure requirements.

March 31, 2023

Manage vendor and agency relationships to make certain contract and service levels are negotiated and aligned with strategic goals and financial commitments, and that deliverables match and meet agreed upon terms and conditions and our expectations.

March 31, 2023

Report security metrics and statistics to the CISO and other key stakeholders such as the Cybersecurity & Privacy Executive Steering Committee.

April 24, 2023

Create and maintain infrastructure and cloud policies, procedures and standards including those related to disaster recovery and redundancy ensuring maximum availability of related IT assets and capabilities.

May 04, 2023

Acts proactively to prevent potential disaster situations by ensuring that proper protections are in place, such as intrusion detection and prevention systems, firewalls, and effective physical safeguards, and provides for the availability of computer resources by ensuring a business continuity/disaster recovery plan is in place to offset the effects caused by intentional and unintentional acts.

May 15, 2023

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Average Salary Range for IT Security Director in Los Angeles, CA

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What is the average salary for IT Security Director in 2024?

These charts show the average base salary (core compensation), as well as the average total cash compensation for the job of IT Security Director in Los Angeles, CA. The base salary for IT Security Director ranges from $194,869 to $231,866 with the average base salary of $212,735. The total cash compensation, which includes base, and annual incentives, can vary anywhere from $217,756 to $269,799 with the average total cash compensation of $241,324.

View Average Salary for IT Security Director as table

	Average Salary	Average Salary Range
Base Salary	$212,735	$194,869 - $231,866
Bonus	$28,590	$22,887 - $37,933
Total Pay	$241,324	$217,756 - $269,799

* Base Salary represents gross income before taxes and deductions. It does not include additional pay such as benefits, bonuses, profit sharing or commissions.

* Total Pay combines base salary, bonuses, profit sharing, tips, commissions, overtime pay and other forms of cash earnings, as applicable for this job.

IT Security Director Salary Near Los Angeles, CA

CITY, STATE	AVERAGE SALARY RANGE	COMPARE TO Los Angeles, CA
CITY, STATE Burbank, CA	AVERAGE SALARY RANGE $196,390 - $233,677	COMPARE TO Los Angeles, CA
CITY, STATE Glendale, CA	AVERAGE SALARY RANGE $196,390 - $233,677	COMPARE TO Los Angeles, CA
CITY, STATE Pasadena, CA	AVERAGE SALARY RANGE $196,390 - $233,677	COMPARE TO Los Angeles, CA
CITY, STATE Inglewood, CA	AVERAGE SALARY RANGE $196,390 - $233,677	COMPARE TO Los Angeles, CA
CITY, STATE Downey, CA	AVERAGE SALARY RANGE $195,474 - $232,586	COMPARE TO Los Angeles, CA
CITY, STATE El Monte, CA	AVERAGE SALARY RANGE $196,181 - $233,427	COMPARE TO Los Angeles, CA

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