Occupation / job
Computer Occupations, All Other
Median annual pay. Half earn less than this.
Hourly at a standard 2,080-hour year. We do not yet have unpaid-time or cost data for this, so this is not an adjusted figure.
The middle half. A quarter earn below this range.
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 · view
What this figure cannot tell you
It covers people EMPLOYED in this occupation. Anyone who trained for it and was never hired is not in the median above, and neither is anyone doing the work self-employed. No verified count of qualified people exists for this occupation, so this page shows none rather than an estimate. Why that matters · The occupations where we could source it
Who this suits
$116,580 puts Computer Occupations, All Other among the highest medians BLS publishes, roughly 133% above the $50,020 all-occupation midpoint. Pay at this level always has a gate in front of it: a residency, a bar exam, a clearance, or a decade.
435,370 people work as Computer Occupations, All Other — large enough that the occupation is always hiring somewhere and always losing people somewhere else. Constant demand is security; it is rarely leverage.
This work suits people who enjoy the debugging more than the building, because most of a career here is spent understanding systems somebody else already wrote.
We carry no verified training length for Computer Occupations, All Other — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.
Who should not do this
At 2.0x, from $79,370 to $157,500, the two halves of Computer Occupations, All Other are not really doing the same job. $6,510 a month separates them, and something other than the title explains it.
The bottom quarter of this field earns $79,370 — $38.15 an hour, $29,350 above the $50,020 national midpoint. When even the worst-paid quarter of Computer Occupations, All Other is this far ahead, the barrier to entry is doing the work of keeping it there.
Avoid it if you expect the qualification to hold its value; here it depreciates from the day you finish.
You will not find a "what share make it" figure here. 435,370 is a headcount of the employed, which is a numerator without a denominator — everyone who qualified and never got hired is missing from it, and we will not estimate them to complete a percentage.
What the spread tells you
From $79,370 to $157,500 at 2.0x: something inside this occupation sorts people a long way apart. Identifying what it is — sector, employer, credential — is worth more than any general advice about Computer Occupations, All Other.
Put in money rather than ratios: $79,370 at the 25th percentile, $116,580 at the midpoint, $157,500 at the 75th. $78,130 separates the quarter of Computer Occupations, All Other at the bottom from the quarter at the top.
Getting to $157,500, the 75th percentile, is worth $40,920 a year more than the $116,580 midpoint and $78,130 more than the $79,370 a quarter of Computer Occupations, All Other settle for.
$116,580 sits almost exactly in the middle of its own range — $37,210 above the bottom quarter, $40,920 below the top one. A symmetric distribution like this is the case where the median genuinely does describe the typical person.
Per hour at a standard full-time year that is $56.04 at the midpoint for Computer Occupations, All Other, $38.15 at the 25th percentile and $75.72 at the 75th, against $24.04 for the typical American job.
What these figures are, and what they are not
The $116,580 figure is what employers pay employees. It is before tax and before deductions, it excludes the self-employed entirely, and it says nothing about anyone who does this work on their own account.
With no unpaid-hours or cost data for Computer Occupations, All Other, the hourly figure is $116,580 over a 2,080-hour year — a unit conversion, not an adjustment.
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