What is the average Software & Engineering salary in the US?

The median advertised full-time Software & Engineering salary in the US is $150,000 per year, based on 191 real US job postings tracked by GeraJobs (crawl window 2026-05-07 to 2026-06-18). The middle half of postings advertise between $122,844 and $182,500.

What is the salary range for Software & Engineering jobs?

Across the GeraJobs Software & Engineering postings, advertised pay runs from about $99,000 at the 10th percentile to $229,400 at the 90th, with a $150,000 median.

Is this an official salary survey?

No. These are medians of advertised salaries on the US jobs GeraJobs currently tracks (source: Himalayas remote-jobs feed), not an official population wage survey. The board skews toward remote and technology roles, so levels run higher than national all-industry averages. For official US occupational wages, see the BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics.

How fresh is this data?

These figures come from the GeraJobs crawl window 2026-05-07 to 2026-06-18, last refreshed 2026-06-18.

Software & Engineering Salary US 2026 — Median $150,000 (GeraJobs)

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Software & Engineering salary in the US

The median advertised full-time Software & Engineering salary in the US is $150,000 per year. The advertised range runs from about $99,000 at the 10th percentile to $229,400 at the 90th.

This is the median of the midpoints of the advertised salary ranges on 191 real US Software & Engineering job postings that GeraJobs is currently tracking (crawl window 2026-05-07 to 2026-06-18). The middle half of postings advertise between $122,844 and $182,500.

For context, the all-industry median across all 989 US postings in this dataset is $130,000.

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Scope: these are medians of advertised salaries on the US jobs GeraJobs tracks (source: Himalayas remote-jobs feed) — not an official population wage. The board skews toward remote and technology roles, so levels run higher than national averages. For official US occupational wages, see the BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics.