Web Developers salary

SOC 15-1254 · BLS OEWS May 2025

Median

$92,650

per year, nationally

Middle half

$64,230–$126,230

25th to 75th percentile

Employed

70,190

in the U.S.

Growth 2024–34

+7.5%

5,400 openings/yr

What the range looks like

A single median hides most of what a job pays. The bar below is the full national range: the wash spans the 10th to 90th percentile, the solid bar is the middle half, and the tick is the median.

$48,100$162,290

10th: $48,100
25th: $64,230
Median: $92,650
75th: $126,230
90th: $162,290

Getting in

Typical education to enter: Bachelor's degree
Related work experience: None
On-the-job training: None

Entry requirements describe what is typical, not mandatory. Source: BLS Employment Projections, 2024–34.

Where web developers earn the most

Nominal pay and pay adjusted for local prices rank states differently — a high-wage state with high costs can be worse off in real terms than a middling one. Switch between the two below.

The median wage as published, before local prices are taken into account.

#	State	Median	Cost of living	Employed	Concentrationvs. national
1	Washington	$130,440	107.0	4,430	2.77×
2	Virginia	$128,380	101.1	4,590	2.47×
3	California	$119,570	110.7	7,320	0.89×
4	District of Columbia	$114,690	109.9	430	1.35×
5	Maryland	$112,690	105.0	1,960	1.57×
6	Missouri	$103,750	90.8	1,160	0.88×
7	Minnesota	$101,020	98.6	1,200	0.90×
8	Utah	$100,170	98.9	1,280	1.63×
9	New York	$98,580	107.9	3,990	0.91×
10	Michigan	$98,470	96.2	1,580	0.79×
11	Massachusetts	$98,470	105.8	1,940	1.18×
12	Rhode Island	$98,140	102.3	—	—
13	North Carolina	$96,610	94.3	2,030	0.91×
14	New Jersey	$95,180	108.8	2,250	1.16×
15	Wisconsin	$90,630	94.1	1,180	0.89×
16	Georgia	$90,340	96.3	1,500	0.68×
17	Pennsylvania	$86,380	97.6	1,670	0.61×
18	Colorado	$85,950	103.1	1,680	1.30×
19	Connecticut	$85,930	103.6	750	0.97×
20	Texas	$85,800	97.1	4,910	0.77×
21	Louisiana	$85,330	88.2	490	0.57×
22	Illinois	$84,820	100.0	4,310	1.57×
23	Vermont	$84,550	98.0	70	0.53×
24	Nevada	$83,220	100.0	340	0.48×
25	Kentucky	$82,630	90.2	270	0.30×
26	Indiana	$80,870	93.3	860	0.60×
27	Nebraska	$80,350	90.1	230	0.50×
28	Idaho	$79,290	95.5	220	0.58×
29	Oklahoma	$78,580	87.8	410	0.53×
30	New Hampshire	$78,260	104.2	470	1.53×
31	West Virginia	$78,240	89.5	400	1.28×
32	South Carolina	$78,190	93.7	710	0.68×
33	Arizona	$76,230	100.7	1,010	0.69×
34	Delaware	$76,020	99.8	—	—
35	Tennessee	$74,760	91.9	1,620	1.09×
36	Kansas	$73,590	90.1	500	0.77×
37	North Dakota	$72,190	89.0	—	—
38	Wyoming	$68,410	92.7	50	0.42×
39	New Mexico	$68,120	92.2	130	0.33×
40	Oregon	$64,460	103.4	1,140	1.28×
41	Iowa	$64,210	87.8	420	0.60×
42	Montana	$62,060	94.6	550	2.39×
43	South Dakota	$51,100	88.6	390	1.88×
44	Arkansas	$50,550	86.9	400	0.67×

Cost of living is the BEA regional price parity for all items, where 100 is the national average. Concentration is the BLS location quotient: how much more of the local workforce does this job than the national average, so 2.00× means twice the national share. It is often the reason wages differ — a place that concentrates an occupation has the employers and the competition for it. States where web developers wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

Best paying metro areas for web developers

The 40 highest-paying metros with a published estimate. BLS suppresses roughly half of all occupation-by-metro cells, so a metro absent here has no local figure rather than a low one.

The median wage as published, before local prices are taken into account.

#	Metro area	Median	Cost of living	Employed	Concentrationvs. national
1	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$166,670	110.4	1,130	2.20×
2	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$152,450	115.6	1,420	1.33×
3	Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV	$134,350	108.9	3,840	2.71×
4	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$130,440	111.1	3,470	3.69×
5	Richmond, VA	$117,090	97.9	—	—
6	Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, WA	$111,560	103.7	290	4.89×
7	Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI	$108,550	100.3	870	1.01×
8	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	$108,520	108.3	1,450	1.19×
9	Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD	$107,590	104.5	790	1.29×
10	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$107,290	113.6	2,310	0.82×
11	Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI	$106,890	104.8	800	0.91×
12	Trenton-Princeton, NJ	$106,730	103.2	110	0.98×
13	St. Louis, MO-IL	$106,360	95.1	490	0.82×
14	Vallejo, CA	$106,190	108.5	40	0.60×
15	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$104,820	112.6	4,200	0.98×
16	Provo-Orem-Lehi, UT	$103,970	98.2	520	3.80×
17	Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA	$103,530	107.8	—	—
18	Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC	$103,440	97.9	400	1.17×
19	Winchester, VA-WV	$102,380	96.5	30	1.02×
20	Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC	$101,980	97.3	510	0.83×
21	Charlottesville, VA	$101,210	99.1	130	2.44×
22	Winston-Salem, NC	$100,240	92.0	—	—
23	Evansville, IN	$99,720	91.5	70	1.13×
24	Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA	$98,560	106.7	190	0.39×
25	San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA	$98,300	111.9	520	0.76×
26	Providence-Warwick, RI-MA	$98,140	101.8	410	1.27×
27	Durham-Chapel Hill, NC	$96,880	97.6	160	1.03×
28	Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN	$96,870	103.6	2,790	1.37×
29	Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX	$96,740	103.1	1,660	0.91×
30	Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC	$95,700	91.9	70	0.68×
31	Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD	$94,570	102.6	810	0.62×
32	Binghamton, NY	$94,080	92.9	30	0.73×
33	Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA	$93,590	100.1	990	0.76×
34	Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT	$93,550	106.9	—	—
35	Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT	$93,000	102.7	—	—
36	Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA	$92,310	100.3	150	1.31×
37	Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO	$92,060	105.8	900	1.23×
38	Kennewick-Richland, WA	$91,870	100.1	40	0.75×
39	Greensboro-High Point, NC	$91,730	92.9	100	0.59×
40	Wilmington, NC	$91,480	96.4	—	—

Cost of living is the BEA regional price parity for all items, where 100 is the national average. Concentration is the BLS location quotient: how much more of the local workforce does this job than the national average, so 2.00× means twice the national share. It is often the reason wages differ — a place that concentrates an occupation has the employers and the competition for it. Metro areas where web developers wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

Similar occupations

Other jobs in the same field, with what each pays nationally.

Software Developers$135,980
Computer User Support Specialists$61,860
Computer Systems Analysts$105,850
Computer Occupations, All Other$116,580
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Information Security Analysts$129,180
Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers$104,300
Computer Network Architects$134,050