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SOC 15-1253, wage year 2025-26

Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers prevailing wage by area

Short answer

Across 530 US areas, the median Level 1 prevailing wage for software quality assurance analysts and testers is $30.29 an hour ($63,003 a year) and the median Level 4 wage is $53.05 an hour ($110,344 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$45.27$62.40$79.53$96.66
Merced, CA$44.67$61.79$78.92$96.04
Lexington Park, MD$46.97$60.10$73.22$86.35
San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA$42.36$54.46$66.56$78.66
Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA$40.23$52.25$64.28$76.30
Wenatchee-East Wenatchee, WA$40.15$52.15$64.14$76.14
Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA$40.03$51.99$63.94$75.90
Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV$40.60$51.18$61.76$72.34
Boulder, CO$40.48$50.78$61.08$71.38
Winchester, VA-WV$40.12$50.76$61.40$72.04

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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