How to start a software development company (2 sources)

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.

134,125 USD Median published figure unchanged since 25 Sept 2026 read 26 Sept 2026
132,270 to 135,980 USD Range lowest to highest published figure
2 Sources with a figure of 7 read in full, 26 Sept 2026
2 of 7 Sources read that publish one 29% publish a figure at all
  1. O*NET OnLine - national wages, software developers (15-1252)135,980 USD
  2. US BLS - software developers (OES 15-1252)132,270 USD
One figure per source, highest first.median 134,125 USD
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RowValue
O*NET OnLine - national wages, software developers (15-1252)135,980 USD
US BLS - software developers (OES 15-1252)132,270 USD

2 of the 7 named sources read in full publish a figure; 5 publish none, read 26 September 2026.

The median is unchanged since 25 September 2026 (was 134,125 USD across 2).

By measure

BreakdownMedianRangeSources
measure onet-median-annual135,980 USD135,980 to 135,980 USD1
measure oes-median-annual132,270 USD132,270 to 132,270 USD1

Every figure, with its source

One row per source: the figure the source's own page publishes, the page, and the day it was read. A figure that is not on a page we read is not on this one.

SourceFigureBreakdownRead
O*NET OnLine - national wages, software developers (15-1252) 135,980 USD onet-median-annual 2026-09-12
US BLS - software developers (OES 15-1252) 132,270 USD oes-median-annual 2026-09-12
The sentence each figure was read from (2)

Read in full, publishes no figure

5 named sources were read in full on the dates shown and print no usable figure. They are counted, never filled in.

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

22 candidate sentences on these pages were refused by a reviewer; each refusal and its reason is recorded in the review ledger.

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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).

Cite as: "FindAgency HQ Developer Pay Benchmark", updated 2026-09-26, https://findagencyhq.com/datasets/developer-pay-benchmark/.

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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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