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SOC 15-1252, wage year 2025-26

Software Developers prevailing wage by area

Short answer

Across 530 US areas, the median Level 1 prevailing wage for software developers is $35.78 an hour ($74,433 a year) and the median Level 4 wage is $64.95 an hour ($135,096 a year). Pick an area below for all four levels.

Ten highest Level 2 wages

AreaLevel 1Level 2Level 3Level 4
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA$71.81$90.26$108.72$127.17
San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA$65.24$77.71$90.18$102.65
Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA$56.61$71.75$86.88$102.02
Boulder, CO$51.08$70.22$89.36$108.50
Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA$47.11$65.57$84.03$102.49
Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA$51.26$64.25$77.24$90.23
New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ$49.62$63.46$77.31$91.15
Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT$48.38$63.07$77.75$92.44
Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH$51.71$63.02$74.33$85.64
San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA$49.42$62.59$75.76$88.93

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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