Santa Clara · United States
Software Engineer salary in Santa Clara
Pay for Software Engineer in Santa Clara, 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 Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA metro area, May 2025
In the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA metro area, software developers (SOC 15-1252) earned a median $213,110 a year in May 2025, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
- 10th percentile
- $138,420
- 25th percentile
- $173,650
- Median
- $213,110
- 75th percentile
- $226,080
- 90th percentile
- $289,150
Occupation: Software Developers (SOC 15-1252) · 87,350 jobs · per year, before tax. Annual wages of all wage and salary workers in the occupation in the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, 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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