Washington · United States
Software Engineer salary in Washington
The median salary in Software Engineer job ads in Washington, United States is $212,900 a year (about $17,742 a month before tax). The middle half of those ads list $188,175 to $237,500, based on 11 salaries from 6 employers, updated 8 Nov 2026.
Official benchmark · U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Software Developers: official pay in the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro area, May 2025
In the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro area, software developers (SOC 15-1252) earned a median $154,930 a year in May 2025, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics; pay listed in 11 job ads for Washington jobs on Jobiba from the last 12 months has a median of $212,900.
- 10th percentile
- $96,450
- 25th percentile
- $123,720
- Median
- $154,930
- 75th percentile
- $176,230
- 90th percentile
- $213,660
Jobiba's job-ad median is 37% above the BLS median. The two figures measure different things. Jobiba's counts only job ads that state pay, so it reflects the employers that publish pay ranges; the largest in this sample are Axon, Kaizen Labs and OpenAI. BLS surveys employers of every size and industry and covers every worker in the occupation, not only open jobs.
Occupation: Software Developers (SOC 15-1252) · 69,060 jobs · per year, before tax. Annual wages of all wage and salary workers in the occupation in the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV 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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- Median in job ads
- $212,900
- a year
- Salaries
- 11
- from 6 employers
- Last updated
- 8 Nov 2026
- 12-month window to 8 Nov 2026
Salary range
Where pay sits in Washington
- 10th percentile
- $155,000
- 25th percentile
- $188,175
- Median
- $212,900
- 75th percentile
- $237,500
- 90th percentile
- $247,650
11 salaries · 13 live local jobs. Box: the middle half of salaries · line: the median · whisker: 10th to 90th percentile.
Compared with the United States median of 2,602 salaries: up +1.1%
Based on 11 salary-listed job postings from the last 12 months · last updated 8 Nov 2026
Pay listed by employers
Latest Software Engineer jobs that show their pay in Washington
Pay as the employer wrote it, per year: individual job posts, not averages.
- Software Engineer, Cleared (TS/SCI)Kaizen Labs · Mid level · posted 7 Nov 2026$180,000 – $250,000
- Software EngineerKaizen Labs · Mid level · posted 7 Nov 2026$160,000 – $230,000
- Senior Staff Software Engineer, NetworkingAxon · Director · posted 6 Nov 2026$190,500 – $304,800
- Sr. Software Engineer IIAxon · posted 6 Nov 2026$148,500 – $237,600
- Sr. Software Engineer, VR Internal ToolsAxon · Senior level · posted 6 Nov 2026$141,000 – $225,600
Evidence
Where these numbers come from
11 salaries from 6 employers, posted between 8 Nov 2025 and 8 Nov 2026. Last updated 8 Nov 2026. Every figure on this page comes from this one group of salaries; the median is the middle value, not the average.
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Frequently asked questions
Software Engineer salary in Washington: common questions
What is the average Software Engineer salary in Washington in 2026?
In the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro area, software developers (SOC 15-1252) earned a median $154,930 a year in May 2025, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics; pay listed in 11 job ads for Washington jobs on Jobiba from the last 12 months has a median of $212,900. The middle half of those job ads pay between $188,175 and $237,500 a year (25th to 75th percentile).
Why is Software Engineer pay in job ads different from the BLS figure?
Jobiba's job-ad median is 37% above the BLS median. The two figures measure different things. Jobiba's counts only job ads that state pay, so it reflects the employers that publish pay ranges; the largest in this sample are Axon, Kaizen Labs and OpenAI. BLS surveys employers of every size and industry and covers every worker in the occupation, not only open jobs.
How does Software Engineer pay in Washington compare with the United States median?
The Software Engineer median in Washington is +1.1% versus the United States median for the same role on Jobiba.
How does Jobiba calculate Software Engineer salary in Washington?
From 11 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.