Software Engineer Salary
Design, build and maintain software systems
The median Software Engineer salary is $190,000, with the middle 50% earning between $150,000 and $228,950 and the top 10% above $270,000. Based on 4,302 reported salaries.
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Software Engineer salary by city
- San Francisco, CA: $217,725 median (1068 reported)
- Los Angeles, CA: $208,708 median (31 reported)
- New York, NY: $207,500 median (339 reported)
- Remote: $202,483 median (463 reported)
- Washington, DC: $202,250 median (125 reported)
- Vancouver, BC: $196,742 median (34 reported)
- Seattle, WA: $193,050 median (281 reported)
- Austin, TX: $192,300 median (39 reported)
- Chicago, IL: $184,500 median (65 reported)
- Phoenix, AZ: $170,320 median (6 reported)
- Boston, MA: $168,750 median (110 reported)
- Atlanta, GA: $159,825 median (17 reported)
- Denver, CO: $150,701 median (32 reported)
- Toronto, ON: $143,850 median (237 reported)
- Montréal, QC: $132,050 median (6 reported)