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SOC 15-1254, wage year 2025-26

Web Developers prevailing wage by area

Short answer

Across 530 US areas, the median Level 1 prevailing wage for web developers is $25.02 an hour ($52,052 a year) and the median Level 4 wage is $47.89 an hour ($99,611 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$44.60$60.70$76.79$92.89
Merced, CA$40.79$57.48$74.17$90.86
Modesto, CA$40.84$56.92$73.01$89.09
San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA$40.14$55.93$71.73$87.52
Salinas, CA$37.50$54.65$71.80$88.95
Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV$41.80$51.76$61.72$71.68
Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV$41.33$51.33$61.33$71.33
Winchester, VA-WV$41.20$51.30$61.41$71.51
Lexington Park, MD$39.84$49.56$59.28$69.00
Northeast Virginia nonmetropolitan area$39.59$49.56$59.54$69.51

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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