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Software Engineer salary in United States
Salary range, market position, recent movement, location comparisons and matching live jobs—calculated from comparable Jobiba listings rather than copied salary tables.
Typical market range
$177,185–$288,700
Median $235,000 / year
Based on 1,253 salary-listed job postings from the last 12 months · refreshed 22 Oct 2026
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Where the market sits
$177,185
25th percentile
$235,000
Market median
$288,700
75th percentile
$143,400
Lower market
$177,185
25th percentile
$288,700
75th percentile
$344,432
Upper market
Market movement
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
San Francisco
395 samples$270,000
$194,000–$330,063 typical
San Mateo
99 samples$295,250
$199,885–$320,145 typical
New York
96 samples$225,313
$188,250–$271,243 typical
Toronto
69 samplesCA$139,378
CA$108,000–CA$190,000 typical
New York City
63 samples$230,000
$178,125–$259,500 typical
Foster City
52 samples$238,750
$218,375–$302,000 typical
Menlo Park
38 samples$250,000
$195,000–$287,600 typical
Mountain View
36 samples$225,813
$194,950–$235,400 typical
Bellevue
34 samples$230,825
$214,700–$262,906 typical
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Software Engineer jobs in United States
Software Engineer, Developer Platform
San Francisco, California, United States
$179K – $200K/yr
Listed salary · employer/source provided
Software Engineer, Backend — Dots
New York, New York, United States
$347K – $385K/yr
Listed salary · employer/source provided
Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure
United States
$212K – $265K/yr
Listed salary · employer/source provided
Full Stack Software Engineer (Associate/Experienced)
USA - Herndon, VA
$106.3K – $143.8K/yr
Listed salary · employer/source provided
Java Software Engineer (Associate/Experienced)
USA - Herndon, VA
$106.3K – $143.8K/yr
Listed salary · employer/source provided
Software Engineer II, Frontend
United States
$133K – $213K/yr
Listed salary · employer/source provided
Staff+ Software Engineer, Memory & Search
New York City, New York, United States
$405K – $485K/yr
Listed salary · employer/source provided
Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure Data Engineering
New York, NY, United States
$177.2K – $364.8K/yr
Listed salary · employer/source provided
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 1,253 salary-listed job postings from the last 12 months · refreshed 22 Oct 2026
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Frequently asked questions
Software Engineer salary in United States: common questions
What is the average Software Engineer salary in United States in 2026?
The median Software Engineer salary in United States is $235,000 a year, based on 1,253 salary-listed job postings on Jobiba. The middle half of postings pay between $177,185 and $288,700 a year (25th to 75th percentile).
How much does an entry-level Software Engineer earn in United States compared with experienced hires?
By experience level in the postings Jobiba could classify: Entry level: $150,100 median (16 postings); Mid level: $189,375 median (64 postings); Senior level: $260,450 median (191 postings); 4+ Years: $171,000 median (6 postings). Bands with too few postings are not shown.
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 United States?
From 1,253 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.