15 Series · SOC 15-1251

Computer Programmers

National salary data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (May 2024)

Median Salary

$98,670

per year

Median Hourly

$47.44/hr

per hour

Mean Salary

$103,640

average

Employment

109,870

jobs nationwide

Salary Range

Annual Salary Distribution

$52,190$71,860$98,670$128,960$162,090
10th pct25thMedian75th90th pct

Hourly Rate Distribution

$25.09$34.55$47.44$62.00$77.93
10th pct25thMedian75th90th pct

10th Percentile

$52,190

25th Percentile

$71,860

Median

$98,670

75th Percentile

$128,960

90th Percentile

$162,090

Salary by State

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# State Median Salary vs National
1 Washington $158,820 +61% above national
2 Montana $128,630 +30% above national
3 Oregon $126,980 +29% above national
4 Colorado $124,880 +27% above national
5 California $116,220 +18% above national
6 Massachusetts $115,200 +17% above national
7 Virginia $111,860 +13% above national
8 Wisconsin $109,580 +11% above national
9 Minnesota $108,450 +10% above national
10 Hawaii $108,040 +9% above national
11 Wyoming $105,420 +7% above national
12 Kentucky $104,840 +6% above national
13 Maine $103,110 +4% above national
14 Maryland $103,000 +4% above national
15 New Jersey $102,770 +4% above national
16 Oklahoma $100,910 +2% above national
17 Delaware $100,700 +2% above national
18 Arkansas $100,670 +2% above national
19 South Carolina $100,620 +2% above national
20 Connecticut $100,510 +2% above national
21 New York $100,410 +2% above national
22 Ohio $99,520 +1% above national
23 Tennessee $99,270 +1% above national
24 Florida $98,630 same as national
25 Georgia $97,970 1% below national
26 North Carolina $95,770 3% below national
27 Rhode Island $94,560 4% below national
28 Nebraska $93,620 5% below national
29 Missouri $93,550 5% below national
30 Nevada $92,650 6% below national
31 Kansas $91,600 7% below national
32 Alaska $88,930 10% below national
33 North Dakota $88,910 10% below national
34 Utah $88,410 10% below national
35 Alabama $87,230 12% below national
36 Pennsylvania $84,770 14% below national
37 Iowa $84,730 14% below national
38 Louisiana $83,980 15% below national
39 New Mexico $83,680 15% below national
40 Indiana $83,670 15% below national
41 Illinois $83,460 15% below national
42 District of Columbia $82,580 16% below national
43 New Hampshire $80,880 18% below national
44 Texas $80,820 18% below national
45 Idaho $80,390 19% below national
46 Vermont $78,230 21% below national
47 Arizona $71,930 27% below national
48 Michigan $68,790 30% below national
49 West Virginia $65,140 34% below national
50 Mississippi $65,120 34% below national
51 South Dakota $56,520 43% below national
52 Puerto Rico $43,010 56% below national

Salary by Metro Area

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# Metro Area Median Salary vs National
1 Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA $167,970 +70% above national
2 Boulder, CO $162,530 +65% above national
3 San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA $159,250 +61% above national
4 San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA $133,560 +35% above national
5 Bend, OR $132,590 +34% above national
6 Fort Collins-Loveland, CO $131,230 +33% above national
7 Bozeman, MT $129,040 +31% above national
8 East Kentucky nonmetropolitan area $128,440 +30% above national
9 Northwestern Region of Texas nonmetropolitan area $128,270 +30% above national
10 Southwest Oklahoma nonmetropolitan area $127,220 +29% above national
11 Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO $122,580 +24% above national
12 Columbia, SC $122,030 +24% above national
13 San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA $122,000 +24% above national
14 Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA $120,870 +22% above national
15 Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT $119,900 +22% above national
16 Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN $119,900 +22% above national
17 Portland-South Portland, ME $119,240 +21% above national
18 South Nebraska nonmetropolitan area $117,410 +19% above national
19 Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI $115,770 +17% above national
20 Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH $115,190 +17% above national
21 Oklahoma City, OK $114,890 +16% above national
22 Durham-Chapel Hill, NC $113,720 +15% above national
23 New Haven, CT $112,140 +14% above national
24 Worcester, MA $111,390 +13% above national
25 Visalia, CA $111,200 +13% above national
26 Colorado Springs, CO $110,160 +12% above national
27 Salem, OR $109,970 +11% above national
28 New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ $109,590 +11% above national
29 Lynchburg, VA $108,760 +10% above national
30 La Crosse-Onalaska, WI-MN $108,730 +10% above national
31 San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA $108,650 +10% above national
32 Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA $108,330 +10% above national
33 Columbus, OH $108,230 +10% above national
34 Urban Honolulu, HI $108,040 +9% above national
35 Northeast Oklahoma nonmetropolitan area $107,780 +9% above national
36 Medford, OR $106,880 +8% above national
37 Trenton-Princeton, NJ $106,880 +8% above national
38 Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA $106,210 +8% above national
39 Lexington-Fayette, KY $105,800 +7% above national
40 Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, FL $105,150 +7% above national
41 Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA $105,030 +6% above national
42 Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL $104,750 +6% above national
43 Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA $104,410 +6% above national
44 San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX $103,860 +5% above national
45 Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV $103,580 +5% above national
46 Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD $103,430 +5% above national
47 Waterbury-Shelton, CT $103,390 +5% above national
48 Greenville, NC $103,380 +5% above national
49 Akron, OH $103,330 +5% above national
50 Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY $103,270 +5% above national
51 Charleston-North Charleston, SC $102,560 +4% above national
52 Charlottesville, VA $102,350 +4% above national
53 Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN $101,930 +3% above national
54 Wichita, KS $101,910 +3% above national
55 Huntsville, AL $101,780 +3% above national
56 Vallejo, CA $101,760 +3% above national
57 Lexington Park, MD $101,570 +3% above national
58 Columbus, GA-AL $101,210 +3% above national
59 Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC $100,920 +2% above national
60 Iowa City, IA $100,790 +2% above national
61 Eugene-Springfield, OR $100,470 +2% above national
62 Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT $100,460 +2% above national
63 Elkhart-Goshen, IN $100,330 +2% above national
64 Modesto, CA $100,200 +2% above national
65 Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC $99,970 +1% above national
66 Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX $99,780 +1% above national
67 Appleton, WI $99,720 +1% above national
68 Springfield, MA $99,310 +1% above national
69 Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL $98,730 same as national
70 Norwich-New London-Willimantic, CT $98,670 same as national
71 Jacksonville, FL $98,350 same as national
72 Tucson, AZ $98,260 same as national
73 Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA $97,970 1% below national
74 St. Louis, MO-IL $97,930 1% below national
75 Billings, MT $97,620 1% below national
76 Merced, CA $97,590 1% below national
77 Youngstown-Warren, OH $97,590 1% below national
78 Burlington-South Burlington, VT $97,350 1% below national
79 Savannah, GA $97,260 1% below national
80 Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL $97,140 2% below national
81 Ogden, UT $97,090 2% below national
82 Providence-Warwick, RI-MA $97,050 2% below national
83 Kansas City, MO-KS $97,020 2% below national
84 Hill Country Region of Texas nonmetropolitan area $96,990 2% below national
85 West Montana nonmetropolitan area $96,850 2% below national
86 Reno, NV $96,720 2% below national
87 Kennewick-Richland, WA $96,670 2% below national
88 Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN $96,570 2% below national
89 Rochester, NY $96,420 2% below national
90 Birmingham, AL $96,190 3% below national
91 Salinas, CA $95,920 3% below national
92 Southeast Minnesota nonmetropolitan area $95,850 3% below national
93 Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL $95,390 3% below national
94 Flagstaff, AZ $95,280 3% below national
95 Fayetteville, NC $95,200 4% below national
96 Duluth, MN-WI $95,110 4% below national
97 Syracuse, NY $94,870 4% below national
98 Canton-Massillon, OH $94,840 4% below national
99 Cleveland, OH $94,520 4% below national
100 Gainesville, FL $94,520 4% below national
101 Wenatchee-East Wenatchee, WA $94,250 4% below national
102 Tulsa, OK $94,230 4% below national
103 Port St. Lucie, FL $94,110 5% below national
104 Tuscaloosa, AL $94,080 5% below national
105 North Coast Region of California nonmetropolitan area $94,070 5% below national
106 Montgomery, AL $93,930 5% below national
107 York-Hanover, PA $93,780 5% below national
108 Topeka, KS $93,600 5% below national
109 Omaha, NE-IA $93,480 5% below national
110 Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH $93,300 5% below national
111 Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA $93,060 6% below national
112 Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA $92,600 6% below national
113 Brownsville-Harlingen, TX $92,260 6% below national
114 Reading, PA $91,840 7% below national
115 Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA $91,590 7% below national
116 Chico, CA $90,850 8% below national
117 Richmond, VA $90,530 8% below national
118 Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN $90,470 8% below national
119 Anchorage, AK $90,260 9% below national
120 Kansas nonmetropolitan area $90,260 9% below national
121 Roanoke, VA $90,220 9% below national
122 Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL $89,830 9% below national
123 Chattanooga, TN-GA $89,830 9% below national
124 Springfield, MO $89,820 9% below national
125 Binghamton, NY $89,380 9% below national
126 Central Kentucky nonmetropolitan area $89,220 10% below national
127 Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV $88,790 10% below national
128 Western North Carolina nonmetropolitan area $88,620 10% below national
129 Salt Lake City-Murray, UT $88,410 10% below national
130 Macon-Bibb County, GA $88,350 10% below national
131 Logan, UT-ID $88,200 11% below national
132 Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD $88,100 11% below national
133 Charleston, WV $87,910 11% below national
134 Northwestern Pennsylvania nonmetropolitan area $87,660 11% below national
135 Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR $87,360 11% below national
136 Northern New Mexico nonmetropolitan area $87,360 11% below national
137 Alaska nonmetropolitan area $87,330 11% below national
138 Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC $87,260 12% below national
139 Evansville, IN $87,180 12% below national
140 Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC $86,640 12% below national
141 Champaign-Urbana, IL $86,540 12% below national
142 Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY $86,320 13% below national
143 Fresno, CA $86,270 13% below national
144 Raleigh-Cary, NC $86,220 13% below national
145 Toledo, OH $86,190 13% below national
146 Pittsburgh, PA $86,120 13% below national
147 Central Pennsylvania nonmetropolitan area $86,080 13% below national
148 Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ $85,510 13% below national
149 Lancaster, PA $85,420 13% below national
150 Southwest Maine nonmetropolitan area $85,360 13% below national
151 Fargo, ND-MN $85,220 14% below national
152 Missoula, MT $84,960 14% below national
153 Ames, IA $84,930 14% below national
154 Dalton, GA $84,860 14% below national
155 Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL $84,810 14% below national
156 Provo-Orem-Lehi, UT $84,770 14% below national
157 Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, VA $84,330 15% below national
158 Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA $84,260 15% below national
159 Central New Hampshire nonmetropolitan area $84,250 15% below national
160 Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX $84,140 15% below national
161 Waco, TX $84,140 15% below national
162 South Central Wisconsin nonmetropolitan area $84,140 15% below national
163 West Northwestern Ohio nonmetropolitan area $84,120 15% below national
164 Las Cruces, NM $83,680 15% below national
165 Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY $83,630 15% below national
166 Stockton-Lodi, CA $83,480 15% below national
167 Northeast Nebraska nonmetropolitan area $83,370 16% below national
168 Greensboro-High Point, NC $83,010 16% below national
169 Southeast Oklahoma nonmetropolitan area $82,990 16% below national
170 Alexandria, LA $82,860 16% below national
171 Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA $82,760 16% below national
172 Green Bay, WI $82,740 16% below national
173 Bakersfield-Delano, CA $82,680 16% below national
174 Lincoln, NE $82,680 16% below national
175 Winston-Salem, NC $82,680 16% below national
176 Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ $82,670 16% below national
177 Columbus, IN $82,510 16% below national
178 Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA $82,410 16% below national
179 Waterloo-Cedar Falls, IA $82,390 16% below national
180 Western Wisconsin nonmetropolitan area $82,320 17% below national
181 Lawrence, KS $82,250 17% below national
182 Manchester-Nashua, NH $82,250 17% below national
183 Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI $82,240 17% below national
184 Albuquerque, NM $82,210 17% below national
185 Fort Wayne, IN $82,210 17% below national
186 Wilmington, NC $82,070 17% below national
187 South Georgia nonmetropolitan area $81,850 17% below national
188 Bloomington, IN $81,820 17% below national
189 Bangor, ME $81,610 17% below national
190 State College, PA $81,490 17% below national
191 Amarillo, TX $81,470 17% below national
192 Shreveport-Bossier City, LA $81,420 17% below national
193 Central East New York nonmetropolitan area $81,400 18% below national
194 Bowling Green, KY $81,330 18% below national
195 Sheboygan, WI $81,260 18% below national
196 Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN $81,180 18% below national
197 Capital/Northern New York nonmetropolitan area $81,040 18% below national
198 South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI $81,000 18% below national
199 Boise City, ID $80,900 18% below national
200 Madison, WI $80,830 18% below national
201 Bismarck, ND $80,570 18% below national
202 Ann Arbor, MI $80,560 18% below national
203 Southern Michigan nonmetropolitan area $80,500 18% below national
204 Killeen-Temple, TX $80,340 19% below national
205 Gulfport-Biloxi, MS $80,290 19% below national
206 Kingston, NY $80,060 19% below national
207 Southwest New York nonmetropolitan area $79,870 19% below national
208 Midland, TX $79,760 19% below national
209 Eastern New Mexico nonmetropolitan area $79,680 19% below national
210 North Region of Texas nonmetropolitan area $79,320 20% below national
211 Asheville, NC $79,250 20% below national
212 Gainesville, GA $79,220 20% below national
213 Northwest Iowa nonmetropolitan area $79,060 20% below national
214 Southern Indiana nonmetropolitan area $78,450 20% below national
215 Eastern North Carolina nonmetropolitan area $78,160 21% below national
216 Cedar Rapids, IA $78,120 21% below national
217 Northeastern Wisconsin nonmetropolitan area $78,090 21% below national
218 Longview, TX $77,960 21% below national
219 Memphis, TN-MS-AR $77,880 21% below national
220 Kenosha, WI $77,520 21% below national
221 Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI $77,480 21% below national
222 Lafayette, LA $76,980 22% below national
223 Northwest Minnesota nonmetropolitan area $76,980 22% below national
224 Central Indiana nonmetropolitan area $76,940 22% below national
225 Utica-Rome, NY $76,910 22% below national
226 Fort Smith, AR-OK $76,870 22% below national
227 Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI $76,810 22% below national
228 Oshkosh-Neenah, WI $76,740 22% below national
229 North Georgia nonmetropolitan area $76,740 22% below national
230 Racine-Mount Pleasant, WI $76,550 22% below national
231 North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL $76,520 22% below national
232 Saginaw, MI $76,460 23% below national
233 North Northeastern Ohio nonmetropolitan area (noncontiguous) $76,410 23% below national
234 St. Cloud, MN $76,210 23% below national
235 Peoria, IL $76,160 23% below national
236 College Station-Bryan, TX $75,820 23% below national
237 Northern Vermont nonmetropolitan area $75,570 23% below national
238 New Orleans-Metairie, LA $75,220 24% below national
239 Traverse City, MI $75,110 24% below national
240 Northeast Iowa nonmetropolitan area $75,100 24% below national
241 Slidell-Mandeville-Covington, LA $74,810 24% below national
242 Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL $74,780 24% below national
243 Amherst Town-Northampton, MA $74,340 25% below national
244 Lansing-East Lansing, MI $74,300 25% below national
245 Eastern Region of Texas nonmetropolitan area $74,150 25% below national
246 McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX $73,940 25% below national
247 Jefferson City, MO $73,860 25% below national
248 Kalamazoo-Portage, MI $73,810 25% below national
249 Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV $73,600 25% below national
250 Southeast Iowa nonmetropolitan area $73,270 26% below national
251 Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ $72,700 26% below national
252 Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux, LA $72,640 26% below national
253 Jackson, MI $72,520 27% below national
254 Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX $72,470 27% below national
255 Knoxville, TN $72,120 27% below national
256 Erie, PA $71,830 27% below national
257 Upper Peninsula of Michigan nonmetropolitan area $71,630 27% below national
258 Central North Carolina nonmetropolitan area $71,560 27% below national
259 Mid Michigan nonmetropolitan area $71,490 28% below national
260 Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA $70,870 28% below national
261 West Kentucky nonmetropolitan area $70,740 28% below national
262 Dover, DE $70,700 28% below national
263 Southwestern Pennsylvania nonmetropolitan area $70,680 28% below national
264 Monroe, LA $70,260 29% below national
265 Lubbock, TX $69,780 29% below national
266 East Tennessee nonmetropolitan area $69,150 30% below national
267 Jackson, MS $67,640 31% below national
268 Mobile, AL $67,290 32% below national
269 El Paso, TX $66,520 33% below national
270 Tallahassee, FL $65,810 33% below national
271 Elmira, NY $65,630 33% below national
272 Eau Claire, WI $64,600 35% below national
273 Northern Indiana nonmetropolitan area $64,430 35% below national
274 Athens-Clarke County, GA $63,700 35% below national
275 Flint, MI $61,250 38% below national
276 Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL $60,300 39% below national
277 Prescott Valley-Prescott, AZ $57,900 41% below national
278 Upper East Mississippi nonmetropolitan area $56,550 43% below national
279 Southeast Missouri nonmetropolitan area $50,230 49% below national
280 San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR $44,840 55% below national
281 Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC $43,350 56% below national
282 Yuba City, CA $37,110 62% below national
283 Ponce, PR $32,970 67% below national

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