{ "name": "FindAgency HQ Developer Pay Benchmark", "title": "Developer Pay Benchmark", "url": "https://findagencyhq.com/datasets/developer-pay-benchmark/", "csv": "https://findagencyhq.com/datasets/developer-pay-benchmark.csv", "markdown": "https://findagencyhq.com/datasets/developer-pay-benchmark/index.md", "computed_at": "2026-09-26", "license": "https://findagencyhq.com/terms", "headline": "The median published figure in the Developer Pay Benchmark is 134,125 USD across 2 sources' own pages (range 132,270 to 135,980 USD), read 26 September 2026.", "quotes": [ "The median published figure in the Developer Pay Benchmark is 134,125 USD across 2 sources' own pages (range 132,270 to 135,980 USD), read 26 September 2026.", "2 of the 7 named sources read in full publish a figure; 5 publish none, read 26 September 2026.", "Developer Pay Benchmark, measure onet-median-annual: median 135,980 USD across 1 source, read 26 September 2026.", "Developer Pay Benchmark, measure oes-median-annual: median 132,270 USD across 1 source, read 26 September 2026.", "The median is unchanged since 25 September 2026 (was 134,125 USD across 2)." ], "citation": "\"FindAgency HQ Developer Pay Benchmark\", updated 2026-09-26, https://findagencyhq.com/datasets/developer-pay-benchmark/.", "changed_since": { "since": "2026-09-25", "previous_median": 134125, "delta": 0, "direction": "unchanged", "sentence": "The median is unchanged since 25 September 2026 (was 134,125 USD across 2)." }, "national": { "unit": "USD", "n": 2, "median": 134125, "min": 132270, "max": 135980, "p25": null, "p75": null, "mean": 134125, "units": { "USD": 2 }, "published_sources": 2, "named_sources": 7, "read_sources": 7, "not_published": 5, "published_share": 0.286 }, "by_axis": { "measure": { "onet-median-annual": { "USD": { "n": 1, "median": 135980, "min": 135980, "max": 135980, "p25": 135980, "p75": 135980, "mean": 135980 } }, "oes-median-annual": { "USD": { "n": 1, "median": 132270, "min": 132270, "max": 132270, "p25": 132270, "p75": 132270, "mean": 132270 } } } }, "rows": [ { "source": "O*NET OnLine - national wages, software developers (15-1252)", "url": "https://www.onetonline.org/link/localwages/15-1252.00?st=", "figure": "$135,980", "value": 135980, "unit": "USD", "vat": null, "axis": { "measure": "onet-median-annual" }, "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "quote": "Hourly Wages $135,980", "source_class": "primary-government", "text_sha256": "d62b843268295c94095315eb67f589877e08385ffc9c2173ac92d65506d15cdd" }, { "source": "US BLS - software developers (OES 15-1252)", "url": "https://www.bls.gov/oes/2023/may/oes151252.htm", "figure": "$ 132,270 ", "value": 132270, "unit": "USD", "vat": null, "axis": { "measure": "oes-median-annual" }, "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "quote": "Annual Wage (2) $ 77,020 $ 101,200 $ 132,270 $ 167,540 $ 208,620", "source_class": "primary-government", "text_sha256": "ffefdd72dc4382ddc5c37e89d9301f25b092ff731807920bbc6c576063e3e58b" } ], "not_published": [ { "source": "ONS - earnings and hours worked, occupation by four-digit SOC (ASHE Table 14)", "url": "https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/datasets/occupation4digitsoc2010ashetable14", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page" }, { "source": "ONS - earnings and hours worked, region by occupation (ASHE Table 15, 2025 provisional)", "url": "https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/datasets/regionbyoccupation4digitsoc2010ashetable15/2025provisional", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page" }, { "source": "US BLS - OES occupation profiles index", "url": "https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_stru.htm", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page" }, { "source": "US BLS - OES tables", "url": "https://www.bls.gov/oes/tables.htm", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page" }, { "source": "the statistical agency per country", "url": "https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/datasets/occupation4digitsoc2010ashetable14", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page" } ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/datasets/occupation4digitsoc2010ashetable14", "label": "ONS - earnings and hours worked, occupation by four-digit SOC (ASHE Table 14)", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/datasets/regionbyoccupation4digitsoc2010ashetable15/2025provisional", "label": "ONS - earnings and hours worked, region by occupation (ASHE Table 15, 2025 provisional)", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.onetonline.org/link/localwages/15-1252.00?st=", "label": "O*NET OnLine - national wages, software developers (15-1252)", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.bls.gov/oes/2023/may/oes151252.htm", "label": "US BLS - software developers (OES 15-1252)", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_stru.htm", "label": "US BLS - OES occupation profiles index", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.bls.gov/oes/tables.htm", "label": "US BLS - OES tables", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/datasets/occupation4digitsoc2010ashetable14", "label": "the statistical agency per country", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" } ], "methodology": "Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through the estate's fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2). 2 of the 7 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 5 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 0 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere. The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source in USD (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences), so N counts sources, never sentences; 22 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded. Derivation as chartered: the statistical agency's median and percentile wages for software and web developers per country and per region, converted to a fully loaded employer cost with the statutory on-costs, and set beside the agency rate index at the same city - the figure nobody publishes being the BREAK-EVEN: how many agency hours a year of an employed developer buys in each city, and how that ratio has moved as wages and agency rates diverged", "embed": "

134,125 USD

median published figure, Developer Pay Benchmark, across 2 sources, read 26 September 2026

Source: FindAgency HQ Developer Pay Benchmark
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