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July 20: State of Software Engineers: pay, skills, and favorite languages

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July 20: State of Software Engineers: pay, skills, and favorite languages

The average U.S. salary for software engineers in 2021 was $156,000.

Danny Sheridan
Jul 20, 2022
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Source: Hired’s 2022 State of Software Engineers (PDF)
Published: April 2022
n = 2,000 U.S. software engineers

State of Software Engineers: pay, skills, and favorite languages

Highest-paying software engineering jobs
1. Security engineer: $165k
2. Search engineer: $160k
3. Natural-language Processing engineer: $160k
4. Mobile engineer: $159k
5. Machine Learning engineer: $158k

Highest-paying salaries by city
1. San Francisco Bay Area: $170k
2. Seattle: $162k
3. New York: $151k
4. Boston: $146k
5. Los Angeles: $142k

Most in-demand software engineering skills
1. Go
2. Ruby on Rails
3. Scala
4. Ruby
5. React Native

Favorite programming languages
1. Python
2. JavaScript
3. Java
4. TypeScript
5. C#

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Suzanne
Jul 20, 2022

Hi Danny - It would be fantastic if you followed the "July 20: State of Software Engineers: pay, skills, and favorite languages" with a post regarding the "Top 10 most expensive cities to live in across the US". There is definitely a disparity in the current top 3-5 cities and the associated salaries for some of those those top 3-5 cities. Thx!

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