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Web Developers · SOC 15-1254

Web Developers Salary in the San Jose Metro Area

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA metro area

Figures describe the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA metropolitan statistical area as defined by BLS/OMB — the whole multi-county metro region, not San Jose city limits.

Median annual wage$166,670
Median hourly wage$80.13

Web Developers in the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA metro area earned a median of $166,670 per year ($80.13 per hour) as of the May 2025 BLS OEWS estimates. Pay ranged from $89,030 at the 10th percentile to $233,990 at the 90th. BLS estimates 1,130 people work in this occupation in the area.

Pay distribution

Half of Web Developers in the San Jose metro area earn more than $166,670 per year, half earn less; the middle half earn between $122,680 and $215,960.

Wage percentiles (BLS OEWS)
Wage10th25thMedian75th90th
Annual$89,030$122,680$166,670$215,960$233,990
Hourly$42.80$58.98$80.13$103.83$112.49

A percentile is a cut point: 25% of workers in this occupation and area earn less than the 25th-percentile wage. The median is the 50th percentile — half earn less, half earn more.

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How this area compares

  • San Jose metro areathis metro area
    $166,670
  • Californiastate (CA)
    $119,570
  • United Statesnational
    $92,650

Bars span the 25th–75th percentile (the middle half of workers); the tick marks the median.

The median here is +39% vs California overall and +80% vs the U.S. median for this occupation.

Compare with other areas

Where this metro sits nationally

$42,530$83,910$125,290$166,670San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA — $42,530San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR — $47,250Stockton-Lodi, CA — $50,300Lubbock, TX — $50,610Rapid City, SD — $52,600Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR — $54,120Sioux Falls, SD-MN — $54,300Daphne-Fairhope-Foley, AL — $56,030McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX — $56,070Bend, OR — $57,180Logan, UT-ID — $57,900Chattanooga, TN-GA — $58,060Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR — $60,010Cedar Rapids, IA — $60,700Appleton, WI — $61,110Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA — $61,960Corpus Christi, TX — $61,980Longview, TX — $62,470Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL — $62,520Wichita, KS — $62,690Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ — $62,790Medford, OR — $62,990St. George, UT — $63,520Salem, OR — $64,460El Paso, TX — $64,490Ogden, UT — $64,880Birmingham, AL — $66,640Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL — $66,770Fargo, ND-MN — $66,860Montgomery, AL — $66,900Tuscaloosa, AL — $67,310Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY — $67,600Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, FL — $68,850South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI — $69,090Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH — $69,230Fort Wayne, IN — $72,180Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA — $72,400Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL — $72,420Mobile, AL — $73,260Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL — $73,290Lansing-East Lansing, MI — $73,890Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA — $73,920Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA — $74,960New Orleans-Metairie, LA — $75,340Toledo, OH — $75,380Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC — $75,390Kingsport-Bristol, TN-VA — $75,670Fort Collins-Loveland, CO — $75,870Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ — $76,230Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ — $76,240Oshkosh-Neenah, WI — $76,650Topeka, KS — $77,570Fresno, CA — $77,600Syracuse, NY — $77,670Akron, OH — $77,690San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX — $77,730Amherst Town-Northampton, MA — $77,830Albuquerque, NM — $77,920Eugene-Springfield, OR — $78,060Lawrence, KS — $78,080Waterloo-Cedar Falls, IA — $78,140Tallahassee, FL — $78,490Green Bay, WI — $78,520Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL — $78,910Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV — $78,930Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN — $78,990Tucson, AZ — $79,060Grand Forks, ND-MN — $79,100Tulsa, OK — $79,130Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL — $79,170Morgantown, WV — $79,190Boise City, ID — $79,290Columbus, GA-AL — $79,420Asheville, NC — $79,530Memphis, TN-MS-AR — $79,690North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL — $79,760Colorado Springs, CO — $79,840Rochester, NY — $79,930Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI — $80,400Barnstable Town, MA — $80,460Knoxville, TN — $80,710Lancaster, PA — $80,710Worcester, MA — $80,840Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN — $80,870Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN — $80,910Columbia, MO — $81,050Kalamazoo-Portage, MI — $81,130Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA — $81,350Lincoln, NE — $81,630Raleigh-Cary, NC — $82,250Oklahoma City, OK — $82,490Pittsburgh, PA — $82,560Gainesville, FL — $82,730Charleston-North Charleston, SC — $82,740Waterbury-Shelton, CT — $82,750Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN — $82,820Huntsville, AL — $82,860Jackson, MS — $83,160Madison, WI — $83,500Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY — $83,550Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA — $83,560Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL — $83,820Columbus, OH — $83,860Springfield, MA — $83,860Manchester-Nashua, NH — $84,170Reno, NV — $84,220Burlington-South Burlington, VT — $84,550Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX — $84,960Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY — $85,070Champaign-Urbana, IL — $85,880Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, VA — $86,680Omaha, NE-IA — $87,920Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA — $87,990Bakersfield-Delano, CA — $88,240Salt Lake City-Murray, UT — $88,770Ann Arbor, MI — $89,000Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX — $89,040Baton Rouge, LA — $89,350Kansas City, MO-KS — $89,420New Haven, CT — $89,800Lexington-Fayette, KY — $91,260State College, PA — $91,300Roanoke, VA — $91,390Wilmington, NC — $91,480Greensboro-High Point, NC — $91,730Kennewick-Richland, WA — $91,870Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO — $92,060Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA — $92,310Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT — $93,000Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT — $93,550Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA — $93,590Binghamton, NY — $94,080Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD — $94,570Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC — $95,700Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX — $96,740Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN — $96,870Durham-Chapel Hill, NC — $96,880Providence-Warwick, RI-MA — $98,140San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA — $98,300Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA — $98,560Evansville, IN — $99,720Winston-Salem, NC — $100,240Charlottesville, VA — $101,210Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC — $101,980Winchester, VA-WV — $102,380Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC — $103,440Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA — $103,530Provo-Orem-Lehi, UT — $103,970New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ — $104,820Vallejo, CA — $106,190St. Louis, MO-IL — $106,360Trenton-Princeton, NJ — $106,730Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI — $106,890Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA — $107,290Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD — $107,590Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH — $108,520Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI — $108,550Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, WA — $111,560Richmond, VA — $117,090Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA — $130,440Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV — $134,350San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA — $152,450San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA — $166,670

Each dot is one metro area with a published median — hover any dot for the name and figure. Metros without published estimates are not drawn.

The San Jose metro area has the 1st-highest published median for this occupation among the 163 metro areas where BLS publishes it. Higher medians often track higher living costs — this is a pay comparison, not a ranking of where the job is “best”.

Other metro areas in California

Metro areas in the same state with published May 2025 medians for web developers, highest first. Areas without published estimates are not listed.

  • San Jose metro areathis page
    $166,670
  • San Francisco metro area
    $152,450
  • Los Angeles metro area
    $107,290
  • Vallejo metro area
    $106,190
  • Santa Rosa metro area
    $103,530
  • Sacramento metro area
    $98,560
  • San Diego metro area
    $98,300

Bars span the 25th–75th percentile (the middle half of workers); the tick marks the median.

Keep exploring

Other occupations in the same SOC group with published medians here, largest employment first:

Software Developers$213,110Computer Occupations, All Other$184,430Computer Systems Analysts$157,140Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers$166,530Data Scientists$185,080Computer User Support Specialists$93,590

Highest-paying metro areas for web developerss · Highest-paying occupations in San Jose Metro

About this estimate

These figures are survey estimates from the BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program — modeled from employer reports collected over three years and benchmarked to May 2025. They describe what employers in this area currently pay across all industries, not what any individual worker will be offered.

Employment counts wage-and-salary jobs in the occupation (self-employed workers are excluded). Estimates carry sampling error; percentile wages are rounded by BLS. Some values are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality or quality — suppressed values appear here as “not published”, never as zero. Read the full methodology.

About this data. Estimates are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program, May 2025 release, retrieved from bls.gov/oes/tables.htm on July 24, 2026. OEWS estimates describe metropolitan/nonmetropolitan areas and states — not city limits — and are not designed for year-over-year comparisons. See BLS methodology, our plain-English methodology, and sources. CitySalaryData is independent and not affiliated with BLS.