San Diego · United States
Software Engineer salary in San Diego
Pay for Software Engineer in San Diego, 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 Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA metro area, May 2025
In the San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA metro area, software developers (SOC 15-1252) earned a median $163,270 a year in May 2025, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
- 10th percentile
- $95,420
- 25th percentile
- $128,590
- Median
- $163,270
- 75th percentile
- $193,980
- 90th percentile
- $223,260
Occupation: Software Developers (SOC 15-1252) · 20,610 jobs · per year, before tax. Annual wages of all wage and salary workers in the occupation in the San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, 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.
Salary range
Where pay sits in San Diego
- 10th percentile
- $165,288
- 25th percentile
- $173,682
- Median
- $193,500
- 75th percentile
- $199,125
- 90th percentile
- $222,000
6 salaries · 16 live local jobs. Box: the middle half of salaries · line: the median · whisker: 10th to 90th percentile. Early reading from 6 salaries, not yet a reliable market median.
Compared with the United States median of 1,227 salaries: down −16.8%
Based on 6 salary-listed job postings from the last 12 months · last updated 6 Nov 2026