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What the pay looks like

Median for the group

$135,980

Bottom tenth

$82,460

Top tenth

$214,670

The national median is $135,980 a year, the bottom tenth earn $82,460 or less and the top tenth $214,670 or more (2025 federal wage survey). The wage survey has no separate line for this job: it counts you inside Software Developers, which is the occupation most people with this title are paid under. Big technology companies sit above this range, hospitals and state government sit below it.