Occupation / job
Web Developers
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
$92,650 against a $50,020 national midpoint is 85% more, or $20.49 an hour. Almost nothing pays this much more without a long, expensive or restricted route in — read that route before reading the number again.
Employment stands at 70,190. Web Developers is common enough to be recruited for continuously and specific enough that the experience travels — the combination that makes changing employer a working pay rise.
Computing suits people who can keep learning after what they learned stops being used. The skill with the longest half-life is the habit of relearning, not any particular stack.
No verified preparation time is on file for Web Developers. The wage survey behind every figure on this page asks employers what they pay, not what they required, so the honest answer here is that we do not know.
Who should not do this
At 2.0x, from $64,230 to $126,230, the two halves of Web Developers are not really doing the same job. $5,166 a month separates them, and something other than the title explains it.
The bottom quarter of Web Developers earns $64,230 or more — $14,210 clear of the $50,020 national midpoint. Three quarters of the field is well paid and the last quarter is still paid better than most of the country.
Avoid it if you expect the qualification to hold its value; here it depreciates from the day you finish.
There is no failure rate on this page because there is nothing honest to divide by. BLS counted 70,190 people employed as Web Developers; it did not count the people who trained for it and are doing something else, and a rate built without that denominator would be a number we made up.
What the spread tells you
From $64,230 to $126,230 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 Web Developers.
In cash terms the middle half of Web Developers runs $64,230 to $126,230 — $62,000 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $92,650.
Between $64,230 and $126,230 — the two ends of the middle half — sits $92,650. Moving from the midpoint to the upper quarter is worth $33,580; the whole climb from the lower quarter is $62,000.
From $92,650 it is $28,420 down to the bottom quarter and $33,580 up to the top. The upper half of the range is the longer one, which is the ordinary shape for work where experience compounds.
Converted to an hourly rate over a full-time year: $30.87 at the bottom quarter, $44.54 at the midpoint, $60.68 at the top quarter. The typical American job works out at $24.04 on the same basis.
What these figures are, and what they are not
This is payroll data: it comes from employers, about people they employ. Anyone doing the work of Web Developers for themselves is not in it, and there is no reason to assume $92,650 describes them.
The hourly number on this page is $92,650 divided by a 2,080-hour year and nothing more. We hold no unpaid-hours or cost data for Web Developers, so it is arithmetic rather than an effective rate.
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