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SOC 15-1299, wage year 2025-26

Computer Occupations, All Other prevailing wage by area

Short answer

Across 530 US areas, the median Level 1 prevailing wage for computer occupations, all other is $26.94 an hour ($56,035 a year) and the median Level 4 wage is $54.64 an hour ($113,662 a year). Pick an area below for all four levels.

Ten highest Level 2 wages

AreaLevel 1Level 2Level 3Level 4
U.S. Virgin Islands MSA$57.48$67.44$77.40$87.36
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA$46.92$67.04$87.16$107.28
Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV$46.05$56.88$67.71$78.54
Lexington Park, MD$47.86$56.85$65.83$74.82
Northeast Virginia nonmetropolitan area$48.76$56.57$64.39$72.20
San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA$38.08$55.19$72.31$89.42
Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA$40.30$53.63$66.97$80.30
Boulder, CO$37.43$53.17$68.90$84.64
Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV$38.49$52.22$65.96$79.69
Charlottesville, VA$39.24$51.36$63.47$75.59

Hourly dollars. Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Foreign Labor Certification (OFLC), prevailing wage data, wage year 2025-26. An LCA is not an H-1B approval and not a job opening.

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