Earnings
Earnings
for engineers vary significantly by specialty, industry, and education.
Even so, as a group, engineers earn some of the highest average starting
salaries among those holding bachelor's degrees.
 Salary
Data
The median annual wage for software developers was $107,510 in May 2019. The median wage is the wage at which half the workers in an occupation earned more than that amount and half earned less. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $64,240, and the highest 10 percent earned more than $164,590. In May 2019, the median annual wages for software developers in the top industries in which they worked were as follows:
| Software publishers |
$122,110 |
| Manufacturing |
116,080 |
| Management of companies and enterprises |
107,640 |
| Computer systems design and related services |
103,670 |
| Insurance carriers and related activities |
100,980 |
The median annual wage for computer programmers was $86,550 in May 2019. The median wage is the wage at which half the workers in an occupation earned more than that amount and half earned less. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $50,150, and the highest 10 percent earned more than $140,250. In May 2019, the median annual wages for computer programmers in the top industries in which they worked were as follows:
| Software publishers |
$98,230 |
| Finance and insurance |
89,920 |
| Manufacturing |
86,620 |
| Computer systems design and related services |
85,640 |
Note: Some resources in this section are provided by the
US Department
of Labor,
Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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