Austin · United States
Software Engineer salary in Austin
Pay for Software Engineer in Austin, 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 Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX metro area, May 2025
In the Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX metro area, software developers (SOC 15-1252) earned a median $134,120 a year in May 2025, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
- 10th percentile
- $96,110
- 25th percentile
- $104,000
- Median
- $134,120
- 75th percentile
- $168,730
- 90th percentile
- $209,890
Occupation: Software Developers (SOC 15-1252) · 31,960 jobs · per year, before tax. Annual wages of all wage and salary workers in the occupation in the Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX 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.
Salary range
Where pay sits in Austin
- 10th percentile
- $166,652
- 25th percentile
- $238,280
- Median
- $251,100
- 75th percentile
- $300,000
- 90th percentile
- $300,000
5 salaries · 14 live local jobs. Box: the middle half of salaries · line: the median · whisker: 10th to 90th percentile. Early reading from 5 salaries, not yet a reliable market median.
Compared with the United States median of 1,227 salaries: up +8.0%
Based on 5 salary-listed job postings from the last 12 months · last updated 3 Nov 2026