Jobiba Salary Intelligence

Software Engineer salary in New York City

Salary range, market position, recent movement, location comparisons and matching live jobs—calculated from comparable Jobiba listings rather than copied salary tables.

69 salary observations92 matching live jobshigh confidence

Typical market range

$221,500–$260,000

Median $242,250 / year

Based on 69 salary-listed job postings from the last 12 months · refreshed 22 Oct 2026

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Salary distribution

Where the market sits

USD · annualized

$221,500

25th percentile

$242,250

Market median

$260,000

75th percentile

$150,000

Lower market

$221,500

25th percentile

$260,000

75th percentile

$362,500

Upper market

Market movement

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Not enough historical evidence yet. Trend is shown only when both 90-day windows have enough comparable observations, preventing noisy “growth” claims from tiny samples.

Location intelligence

Compare Software Engineer pay by market

Currencies are never blended or silently converted

Career growth explorer

Higher-paying roles to explore

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Live opportunity layer

Software Engineer jobs in New York City

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How Jobiba calculates this

Evidence first, estimate second

  • • Uses recent active Jobiba listings that contain employer/source salary data.
  • • Requires an explicit salary currency and pay period before a listing can enter an aggregate.
  • • Applies broad currency-specific plausibility floors/ceilings, then rejects extreme statistical outliers.
  • • Groups title variants through Jobiba's canonical salary-role taxonomy so current estimates and historical trends use the same comparable cohort.
  • • Annualizes hourly, daily, weekly and monthly pay; no foreign-exchange conversion is used.
  • • Uses percentile medians and publishes a range only after the minimum comparable sample is reached.
  • • Labels inferred pay on salary pages/jobs as a Jobiba estimate, never as employer-provided compensation.

Based on 69 salary-listed job postings from the last 12 months · refreshed 22 Oct 2026

Frequently asked questions

Software Engineer salary in New York City: common questions

What is the average Software Engineer salary in New York City in 2026?

The median Software Engineer salary in New York City is $242,250 a year, based on 69 salary-listed job postings on Jobiba. The middle half of postings pay between $221,500 and $260,000 a year (25th to 75th percentile).

Which cities pay the most for Software Engineer jobs?

Among cities with enough USD salary data on Jobiba, the highest medians are San Mateo ($295,250 median, 99 postings), San Francisco ($270,000 median, 395 postings), Menlo Park ($250,000 median, 38 postings). Salaries are compared in their listed currency, without conversion.

How does Jobiba calculate Software Engineer salary in New York City?

From 69 salary-listed Jobiba job postings from the last 12 months that state an explicit salary, currency and pay period. Hourly, daily and monthly pay is converted to an annual figure, implausible values and outliers are removed, and currencies are never mixed or converted. Jobiba publishes the median and 25th–75th percentile range only when enough comparable postings exist.

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Jobiba Market Terminal

Salary trend & career market pulse

A stock-style view of pay movement—without pretending salaries are stocks. Graph points require multiple comparable observations, and stronger growth signals require at least five.

Market tape

$402,500

Median · Oct 26 · 6 observations

P25 $402,500

P75 $434,375

Aug 26Oct 26

Monthly momentum wave

median change · consecutive reliable months only

12-month growth

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Median salary change

3-year CAGR

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Annualized growth

3-month momentum

+3925%

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Signal: surging

Market volatility

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Consecutive monthly median variability

History coverage

3 reliable monthly snapshots

Reliable evidence currently reaches back to Aug 26. Jobiba does not fabricate missing older history.

City movers

Where pay is gaining momentum

01

San Francisco, United States

130 latest-month samples · $265,250 median

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1Y

02

San Francisco, Canada

46 latest-month samples · $196,750 median

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1Y

03

Foster City, United States

38 latest-month samples · $232,250 median

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1Y

04

New York, United States

32 latest-month samples · $267,000 median

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05

Mountain View, United States

29 latest-month samples · $226,000 median

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1Y

06

London, United Kingdom

19 latest-month samples · £232,500 median

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07

San Mateo, United States

19 latest-month samples · $320,145 median

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08

Toronto, Canada

16 latest-month samples · CA$190,000 median

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1Y

Market composition

Experience mix behind the data

This helps candidates judge whether a headline median is dominated by junior, mid-level or senior observations.

12M

experience mix

Senior Level
43.5%
Unknown
43.5%
Entry Level
6.5%
Mid Level
6.5%

Salary by experience

How Software Engineer pay changes by seniority in New York City

This is a market ladder from salary-bearing listings, not a promise that another year of service automatically creates a raise. Scope, company type, skills and responsibility still move the number.

Senior level

27 observations · P25 $227,000 · P75 $351,438

$242,250

Career planning check: if your current level sits well below the market median, compare the job scope first. A title can be the same while team size, ownership and technical depth are very different.

Skills & pay signal

Skills showing up in better-paid Software Engineer listings

A premium is an association, not a causal guarantee. Higher-paying jobs often bundle several scarce skills, stronger seniority and tougher scope together. Use this as a shortlist for deeper career research.

logistics

6 salary-bearing jobs · median $402,500

+81.0%

terraform

8 salary-bearing jobs · median $244,750

+10.1%

gcp

15 salary-bearing jobs · median $242,250

+9.0%

kubernetes

11 salary-bearing jobs · median $234,500

+5.5%

c++

7 salary-bearing jobs · median $230,000

+3.5%

java

18 salary-bearing jobs · median $227,000

+2.1%

python

30 salary-bearing jobs · median $223,162

+0.4%
Skills with broad demand but no current pay premium
ai · 0.0%Excel · 0.0%mongodb · -14.2%azure · -14.9%javascript · -16.3%