Occupation · SOC 15-1254

Web Developers Salary

Web Developers earn a median of $92,650 a year in the United States, which is $44.54 an hour. The mean is $98,770, and 70,190 people are employed in the occupation.

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Median annual salary $92,650 May 2025 · half earn more, half earn less
Median hourly $44.54
Mean annual $98,770
US employment 70,190
Top 10% earn $162,290+

The full pay range

A single average hides most of what a reader wants to know. BLS publishes the whole distribution, so here it is: each row is the annual salary at that point in the pay range for web developers.

Annual salary by percentile May 2025

Percentile Annual salary Typically
10th percentile $48,100 entry level, or a lower-paying region
25th percentile $64,230 early career
Median (50th) $92,650 half earn more, half earn less
75th percentile $126,230 experienced
90th percentile $162,290 top of the field

Common questions

How much do web developers make?

The median salary for web developers in the United States is $92,650 a year, which is $44.54 an hour. The mean is $98,770. Median and mean differ because a small number of very high earners pull the mean upward, so the median is the better answer to what the job typically pays.

What is the highest salary for a web developer?

The highest-paid 10 percent of web developers earn $162,290 or more. That is the highest figure the survey publishes for this occupation; there is no reported maximum, and individual earnings above it are not broken out.

How many people work as web developers in the US?

70,190, as of the May 2025 release. That covers wage and salary workers in nonfarm establishments and excludes the self-employed, who are not surveyed.

How much do web developers make a month?

About $7,721 a month before tax, which is the published annual median of $92,650 divided by twelve. BLS publishes annual and hourly wages rather than monthly, so treat this as arithmetic on the annual figure, not a separate measurement.

Do web developers make $100,000 a year?

Often. More than a quarter do: the 75th percentile is $126,230, against a median of $92,650. Reaching six figures usually means experience, a high-paying state, or both.

How much does a Web Developer make?

Web Developer is a common name for web developers, classified by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics under SOC code 15-1254. The median salary is $92,650 a year, or $44.54 an hour.

Where these numbers come from

Every figure above is published by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025 release, for SOC code 15-1254. Nothing here is interpolated or averaged by this site. The survey covers wage and salary workers in nonfarm establishments and excludes the self-employed. See how to read these figures for what that means in practice.