San Francisco · United States
Software Developer salary in San Francisco
Pay for Software Developer in San Francisco, United States, worked out from salary-listed jobs there. Figures cover United States only and are never mixed with other currencies.
Official benchmark · U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Software Developers: official pay in the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA metro area, May 2025
In the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA metro area, software developers (SOC 15-1252) earned a median $186,640 a year in May 2025, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
- 10th percentile
- $128,090
- 25th percentile
- $163,500
- Median
- $186,640
- 75th percentile
- $219,670
- 90th percentile
- $273,400
Occupation: Software Developers (SOC 15-1252) · 69,030 jobs · per year, before tax. Annual wages of all wage and salary workers in the occupation in the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA metropolitan statistical area, all industries and employer sizes (self-employed excluded) — not only jobs that are advertised. Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (metropolitan area data) (public domain), retrieved 1 Nov 2026.
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