What is the average salary for Computer Programmers?

The average salary for Computer Programmers is $94K per year, weighted across all cities with data and based on 1929 public records.

Which cities pay Computer Programmers the most?

The highest-paying cities for Computer Programmers include San Francisco, CA, Redmond, WA, Cupertino, CA.

What skills do Computer Programmers need?

Key skills for Computer Programmers include Domain Expertise, Problem Solving, Communication, Collaboration, Analytical Thinking.

Computer Programmers

Salary benchmarks based on 1929 public records across 65 cities.

What do Computer Programmers do?

Create, modify, and test the code and scripts that allow computer applications to run. Work from specifications drawn up by software and web developers or other individuals. May develop and write computer programs to store, locate, and retrieve specific documents, data, and information.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, SOC 2018 (SOC 15-1251)

What our data shows for Computer Programmers

RoleHue publishes 1,929 salary records for Computer Programmers, across 65 cities. Weighted by how many records each city contributes, the band runs from $87,566 at the 25th percentile to $110,416 at the 75th, a spread of $22,850 around $94,293. Each of those three figures averages the city-level percentiles rather than ranking the pooled records, and weights each city by how many records it holds, so the cities we hold most data for pull them hardest. Measured against that $94,293 figure rather than in dollars (24% of it), that spread is tighter than 63% of the roles we cover.

San Francisco, CA carries the highest median we hold for the role at $145,000; Pittsburgh, PA the lowest at $75,000, a gap of $70,000. The middle half of those city medians, weighted by how many records each city contributes, spans $19,000, narrower than the $22,850 band within cities: for Computer Programmers, where a record sits within its own metro separates our numbers more than which metro it came from.

No single metro carries most of this: the largest share is Irving, TX, with 143 of the 1,929 records we publish for this role (7%). Evidence clears 25 records in 23 of the 65 cities; for the rest, the city median we show rests on fewer records than that.