Software Developers, Applications and Systems Software
Income Percentile Results
Total Income of $55,000 ranks between the 14.2th and 20.5th percentiles for all education levels. These results were estimated off of 1,202,256 Software Developers, Applications and Systems Software.
50th Percentile (Median) Income for any Education Level: $98,36475th Percentile: $128,653
95th Percentile: $204,261
99th Percentile: $450,926
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Income Percentile Stats
- To be in the top 1% for this age range, your household would need an income of $450,926 per year. This would include salary, investments, and any business income.
- To be in the top 5% for this age range, your household would need an income of $204,261 per year. This would include salary, investments, and any business income.
Income of Software Developers, Applications and Systems Software by Highest Education Level
Total Income of $55,000 ranks for education levels:- Compared to Doctoral degree holders this ranks between the 5.5th and 7.3th percentiles.
- Compared to Professional degree beyond a Bachelor's degree holders this ranks between the 12.1th and 19.7th percentiles.
- Compared to Master's degree holders this ranks between the 8.7th and 12.9th percentiles.
- Compared to Bachelor's degree holders this ranks between the 14th and 21.1th percentiles.
- Compared to HS Diploma / GED degree holders this ranks between the 31.7th and 39.9th percentiles.
Income Percentile Distribution by Education Level
Highest Level of Education for Software Developers, Applications and Systems Software:- Other (N/A or Less than HS): 0.4%
- HS Diploma / GED: 2.3%
- Associates Degree and Some College: 13.5%
- Bachelors Degree: 50.4%
- Masters Degree: 29.7%
- Professional Degree beyond a Bachelors: 0.9%
- Doctoral Degree (PHd) : 2.9%
Most Common Bachelors Degree Majors
- For Computer and Information Sciences undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 13.2th and 20.3th percentiles.
- For Engineering undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 10.8th and 16.8th percentiles.
- For Business undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 16th and 23.9th percentiles.
- For Mathematics and Statistics undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 12.1th and 17.6th percentiles.
- For Social Sciences undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 16.1th and 23.2th percentiles.
- For Engineering Technologies undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 13.1th and 20.2th percentiles.
- For Physical Sciences undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 14.6th and 19.2th percentiles.
- For Fine Arts undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 25.4th and 32.8th percentiles.
- For Communications undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 20.6th and 31.6th percentiles.
- For Biology and Life Sciences undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 21.1th and 29.8th percentiles.
Treemap of Undergraduate Majors
Methodology and Assumptions
This data was sourced from the person-level data recorded by the American Communities Survey. The version of the survey used was the most recent 5 year revision for data recorded from 2013-2017. These results represent 1,202,256 Software Developers, Applications and Systems Software. The occupation code that was used to generate these results e was 1020 to read more about the occupation codes that the ACS and Census use. These results were generated in R using raw data from the ACS and precalculated in a batch. This data includes all individual income for the survey respondent, so some of the people may have a wage job as well as other income sources. I did not limit to wage income, because many occupations have high portions of entrepreneurs (CEOs, doctors, tradespeople).
Exclusions and Filters Applied:- Filtered for people who reported working at least 30 hours a week.
- High School Graduates and GED graduates were original 2 separate categories that I combined.
- Anything below High School Graduates is combined into a separate category. I did not include these on the page for space reason but I can. The data has data for associate degree holders and some college and these values are mostly in between the high school and bachelors samples. There doesn't seem to be a significant difference between some college and an associates degree.
- All ages are included and not separated. I did some initial testing and there is a difference if the data is split out by age, but I wasn't able to consolidate the data into a way that would make it fast to interact with and avoid being too complicated.
- There may be some confusion around a masters degree vs a professional degree beyond a masters. This was a distinction made in the original raw data that I decided to keep. Because the data is collected by polling people individually, some of the respondents may have mixed up the difference depending on how they phrased their response.
- Masters Degree : MBA, Masters in Something
- Professional Degree beyond a Bachelors Degree: Law Degree, Medical School, generally these degrees are credentials for specific careers.
- Doctoral Degree: PHd