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Software Developer Salary in Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, Texas

The annual salary statistics of software developers in Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, Texas is shown in Table 1. The wage data of software developers in Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown is based on the national compensation survey conducted by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics in 2022 and published in April 2023 [1].

Table 1. Annual Salary of Software Developers in Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, Texas

Percentile BracketAverage Annual Salary
10th Percentile Wage
$65,750
25th Percentile Wage
$88,080
50th Percentile Wage
$117,800
75th Percentile Wage
$140,680
90th Percentile Wage
$165,920

Table 1 shows the average annual salary for software developers in Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, Texas in 5 percentile scales. The average annual salary for the 90th percentile (the top 10 percent of the highest paid) is $165,920. The median (50th percentile) annual salary is $117,800. The average annual salary for the bottom 10 percent earners is $65,750.

Median salary trend (2012 to 2022)

The table and chart below show the trend of the median salary of software developers from 2012 to 2022. Note that there is no salary data for some years between 2012 and 2022.

YearMedian Salary Growth1-Year Growth
2022
$117,800
12.93% 12.93%
2021
$102,570
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Table 2. Compare Software Developer Salary in Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown with Other Texas Cities

From Table 3 we note that the median annual salary of $117,800 in Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown is in the middle of salary range for software developers in state of Texas. In comparison, the annual salary of software developers in Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown is 4.2 percent (4.2%) lower than that in the highest paying Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington and 29.4 percent (29.4%) higher than that in the lowest paying Victoria.

Cities/Areas Median Annual Salary
Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington
$122,990
Waco
$118,720
Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown
$117,800
Laredo
$115,890
San Antonio-New Braunfels
$111,410
Midland
$110,210
Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos
$109,650
Longview
$108,150
Brownsville-Harlingen
$105,320
Odessa
$104,770
Amarillo
$104,180
Wichita Falls
$103,530
Sherman-Denison
$102,600
Killeen-Temple-Fort Hood
$102,540
Corpus Christi
$98,460
North Central Texas nonmetropolitan area
$97,750
Beaumont-Port Arthur
$97,620
Northwestern Texas nonmetropolitan area
$94,680
Gulf Coast Texas nonmetropolitan area
$94,580
Abilene
$94,190
Tyler
$93,920
San Angelo
$93,830
Central Texas nonmetropolitan area
$93,470
Eastern Texas nonmetropolitan area
$93,350
El Paso
$92,140
McAllen-Edinburg-Mission
$90,690
Lubbock
$90,680
College Station-Bryan
$86,680
Texarkana-Texarkana
$86,190
Victoria
$83,140

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