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AVERAGE SALARY / YEAR MOST TYPICAL SALARY / YEAR
Gross income
Net (after tax)

$101,393 USD

£80,136 GBP
New York City

$116,326 USD

$82,000 USD

£64,809 GBP
Including "New York City"
Excluding "New York City"

Average Salary / IT & Programming / California

Average salary for IT & Programming / California is $101,393 USD per year. The most typical earning is $82,000 USD. All data are based on 243 salary surveys. Salaries are different between men and women. Men receive an average salary of $111,200 USD. Women receive a salary of $94,300 USD.

Based on education, the highest salaries receive people with Doctorate Degree with salary of $124,200 USD. The second most paid education level is Masters Degree with salary of $117,900 USD.

Different experiences affect earning as well. People with 20+ Years of experience receive salary of $131,500 USD. Employees with 16-20 Years of experience receive $130,200 USD.

Levels / IT & Programming / California (Gross USD)

Salary Levels (USD) per Year Surveys [%]
$10,000 USD - $14,999 USD
0 n/a
$15,000 USD - $19,999 USD
1 100%
0.41%
$20,000 USD - $24,999 USD
2 99.59%
0.82%
$25,000 USD - $29,999 USD
3 98.77%
1.23%
$30,000 USD - $34,999 USD
3 97.53%
1.23%
$35,000 USD - $39,999 USD
1 96.3%
0.41%
$40,000 USD - $44,999 USD
7 95.88%
2.88%
$45,000 USD - $49,999 USD
3 93%
1.23%
$50,000 USD - $54,999 USD
9 91.77%
3.7%
$55,000 USD - $59,999 USD
3 88.07%
1.23%
$60,000 USD - $64,999 USD
11 86.83%
4.53%
$65,000 USD - $69,999 USD
11 82.3%
4.53%
$70,000 USD - $74,999 USD
15 77.78%
6.17%
$75,000 USD - $79,999 USD
17 71.6%
7%
THE MOST TYPICAL SALARY
$80,000 USD - $84,999 USD
22 64.61%
9.05%
$85,000 USD - $89,999 USD
2 55.56%
0.82%
$90,000 USD - $94,999 USD
16 54.73%
6.58%
$95,000 USD - $99,999 USD
6 48.15%
2.47%
$100,000 USD - $104,999 USD
18 45.68%
7.41%
$105,000 USD - $109,999 USD
7 38.27%
2.88%
$110,000 USD - $114,999 USD
6 35.39%
2.47%
$115,000 USD - $119,999 USD
2 32.92%
0.82%
$120,000 USD - $124,999 USD
21 32.1%
8.64%
$125,000 USD - $129,999 USD
4 23.46%
1.65%
$130,000 USD - $134,999 USD
3 21.81%
1.23%
$135,000 USD - $139,999 USD
3 20.58%
1.23%
$140,000 USD - $144,999 USD
5 19.34%
2.06%
$145,000 USD - $149,999 USD
0 n/a
HIGH SALARIES
$150,000 USD - $159,999 USD
10 17.28%
4.12%
$160,000 USD - $169,999 USD
9 13.17%
3.7%
$170,000 USD - $179,999 USD
7 9.47%
2.88%
$180,000 USD - $189,999 USD
5 6.58%
2.06%
$190,000 USD - $199,999 USD
3 4.53%
1.23%
$200,000 USD - $209,999 USD
2 3.29%
0.82%
$210,000 USD - $219,999 USD
2 2.47%
0.82%
$220,000 USD - $229,999 USD
0 n/a
$230,000 USD - $239,999 USD
0 n/a
$240,000 USD - $249,999 USD
0 n/a
$250,000 USD - $349,999 USD
4 1.65%
1.65%

Gender / IT & Programming / California (Gross USD)

# Surveys AVERAGE SALARY / YEAR
1 Men 139 $111,200 USD
2 Women 30 $94,300 USD

Education / IT & Programming / California (Gross USD)

# Surveys AVERAGE SALARY / YEAR
1 Doctorate Degree 6 $124,200 USD
2 Masters Degree 54 $117,900 USD
3 Bachelors Degree 143 $99,000 USD
4 Some College 38 $84,600 USD
5 High School 2 $75,500 USD

Experience / IT & Programming / California (Gross USD)

# Surveys AVERAGE SALARY / YEAR
1 20+ Years 42 $131,500 USD
2 16-20 Years 24 $130,200 USD
3 12-16 Years 23 $123,600 USD
4 8-12 Years 55 $97,600 USD
5 4-8 Years 42 $80,600 USD
6 0-1 Year 13 $79,500 USD
7 1-2 Years 11 $78,500 USD
8 2-4 Years 33 $75,600 USD

Age / IT & Programming / California (Gross USD)

# Surveys AVERAGE SALARY / YEAR
1 66-70 1 $175,000 USD
2 41-45 13 $147,700 USD
3 46-50 22 $140,900 USD
4 51-55 10 $137,700 USD
5 31-35 19 $108,700 USD
6 36-40 41 $103,300 USD
7 56-60 12 $102,100 USD
8 n/a 74 $85,900 USD
9 21-25 17 $83,500 USD
10 26-30 30 $83,000 USD
11 71-75 1 $80,000 USD
12 61-65 1 $68,000 USD
13 14-20 2 $65,000 USD

Work Type / IT & Programming / California (Gross USD)

# Surveys AVERAGE SALARY / YEAR
1 Contract 21 $102,600 USD
2 Permanent 207 $102,500 USD
3 Self Employed 12 $92,800 USD
4 Part Time 3 $48,600 USD

Cities / IT & Programming / California (Gross USD)

# Surveys AVERAGE SALARY / YEAR
1 San Jose 9 $134,700 USD
2 San Francisco 74 $120,700 USD
3 Sacramento 12 $105,600 USD
4 Oakland 5 $102,400 USD
5 Huntington Beach 1 $100,000 USD
6 Fresno 3 $99,700 USD
7 San Bernardino 1 $97,000 USD
8 San Diego 33 $95,500 USD
9 Los Angeles 70 $94,100 USD
10 Santa Ana 3 $80,000 USD
11 Oceanside 1 $78,000 USD
12 Anaheim 8 $75,100 USD
13 Irvine 9 $72,600 USD
14 Riverside 4 $71,800 USD
15 Long Beach 6 $64,000 USD
16 Modesto 2 $63,500 USD
17 Fremont 1 $60,000 USD
18 Garden Grove 1 $50,000 USD

Careers / IT & Programming / California (Gross USD)

# Surveys AVERAGE SALARY / YEAR
1 Java Developer 1 $180,000 USD
2 Python Developer 1 $170,000 USD
3 Share-point Administrator 1 $160,000 USD
4 Lead Developer 12 $132,700 USD
5 IT Manager 48 $127,200 USD
6 Database Administrator 5 $123,600 USD
7 IT Project Manager 26 $114,800 USD
8 Games Developer 1 $110,000 USD
9 Software Developer 44 $108,000 USD
10 Database Manager 2 $100,000 USD
11 C-Sharp Developer 3 $96,000 USD
12 C, C++ Developer 6 $93,100 USD
13 Data-warehouse Engineer 4 $91,300 USD
14 Robots Programmer 1 $90,000 USD
15 Ruby Developer 1 $90,000 USD
16 J2EE Developer 3 $88,300 USD
17 MS Office 2 $87,000 USD
18 Data Coordinator 10 $84,000 USD
19 ASP.NET Developer 13 $83,200 USD
20 Web Administrator 1 $80,000 USD
21 Web Developer 17 $78,500 USD
22 Android Developer 10 $75,900 USD
23 PHP Developer 6 $70,200 USD
24 .NET Developer 8 $68,600 USD
25 Database Developer 4 $67,500 USD
26 Silverlight Developer 2 $66,000 USD
27 IT Coordinator 9 $46,600 USD
28 VB.NET Developer 1 $28,000 USD
29 Coldfusion Developer 1 $20,800 USD

People's individual salary examples (surveys)

50/50  Technical Consultant (Woman)
Posted 21 May 2023

What I do?

"Data residency, data compliance, data regulation, Encryption, data sovereignty, data storage, in-country data storage, data localization, and encryption."

City Education Experience Knowledge Gross salary / year
San Francisco Masters Degree 12-16 Years Advanced $140,000 USD

49/50  Software Engineer (Man)
Posted 09 September 2022

What I do?

"Write and maintain enterprise software written in C#."

City Education Experience Knowledge Gross salary / year
Irvine Bachelors Degree 1-2 Years Intermediate $108,000 USD

48/50  Sr It Manager (Man)
Posted 09 June 2022

What I do?

"SLDC, Agile, Scrum, Cloud, Software development, People Management, DevOps."

City Education Experience Knowledge Gross salary / year
San Jose Bachelors Degree 16-20 Years Expert $175,000 USD

47/50  Technology Manager (Man)
Posted 08 June 2022

What I do?

"Infrastructure and operations for IT."

City Education Experience Knowledge Gross salary / year
Los Angeles Bachelors Degree 8-12 Years Advanced $150,000 USD

46/50  Engineer (Man)
Posted 15 April 2022

What I do?

"Programming."

City Education Experience Knowledge Gross salary / year
San Jose Masters Degree 2-4 Years Advanced $150,000 USD

45/50  Software Engineer (Man)
Posted 07 April 2022

What I do?

"Dev, lead, prod."

City Education Experience Knowledge Gross salary / year
Los Angeles Bachelors Degree 2-4 Years Expert $170,000 USD

44/50  Software Engineer (Man)
Posted 17 March 2022

What I do?

"Web app development."

City Education Experience Knowledge Gross salary / year
San Francisco Bachelors Degree 8-12 Years Advanced $180,000 USD

43/50  Data Analyst (Man)
Posted 17 March 2022

What I do?

"SQL PYTHON."

City Education Experience Knowledge Gross salary / year
Irvine Masters Degree 1-2 Years Intermediate $70,000 USD

42/50  Network Engineer (Man)
Posted 03 March 2022

What I do?

"Voice and data various systems."

City Education Experience Knowledge Gross salary / year
Los Angeles Some College 16-20 Years Advanced $120,000 USD

41/50  Enterprise Portfolio Manager (Woman)
Posted 03 January 2022

What I do?

"Project and portfolio management."

City Education Experience Knowledge Gross salary / year
Los Angeles Some College 8-12 Years Advanced $150,000 USD

40/50  It Manager (Man)
Posted 28 October 2021

What I do?

"Manage IT."

City Education Experience Knowledge Gross salary / year
San Diego Masters Degree 16-20 Years Expert $130,000 USD

39/50  Team Lead (Man)
Posted 06 October 2021

What I do?

"C+, HTML."

City Education Experience Knowledge Gross salary / year
Anaheim Bachelors Degree 8-12 Years Expert $125,800 USD

38/50  Analyst (Man)
Posted 21 September 2021

What I do?

"Market analysis and tearing."

City Education Experience Knowledge Gross salary / year
Los Angeles Bachelors Degree 1-2 Years Intermediate $55,000 USD

37/50  Sr Software Engineer (Man)
Posted 25 June 2021

What I do?

"Web technologies including J2EE, relational databases."

City Education Experience Knowledge Gross salary / year
San Jose Bachelors Degree 16-20 Years Advanced $150,000 USD

36/50  It Coordinator (Woman)
Posted 19 May 2021

What I do?

"Systems management."

City Education Experience Knowledge Gross salary / year
San Diego Bachelors Degree 2-4 Years Intermediate $47,500 USD

35/50  Senior Consultant (Man)
Posted 29 September 2020

What I do?

"Scala akka consulting."

City Education Experience Knowledge Gross salary / year
San Francisco Bachelors Degree 12-16 Years n/a $190,000 USD

34/50  Quality Assurance (Man)
Posted 05 August 2020

What I do?

"QA managing spreadsheets."

City Education Experience Knowledge Gross salary / year
San Francisco Doctorate Degree 4-8 Years n/a $50,000 USD

33/50  Analytics Director (Man)
Posted 25 July 2020

What I do?

"Google Analytics, Google Search Console, DOMO, Tableau, Stitch, R, SQL, Business Intelligence."

City Education Experience Knowledge Gross salary / year
San Diego Some College 16-20 Years n/a $80,000 USD

32/50  DATA ANALYST (Man)
Posted 10 July 2020

What I do?

"Data Analysis, ETL, Data cleaning, analyzing data."

City Education Experience Knowledge Gross salary / year
Irvine Doctorate Degree 0-1 Year n/a $70,000 USD

31/50  It Manager (Man)
Posted 08 July 2020

What I do?

"No certs, just experience."

City Education Experience Knowledge Gross salary / year
Los Angeles Some College 8-12 Years n/a $120,000 USD

30/50  Analytics Associate (Man)
Posted 26 May 2020

What I do?

"SQL, Tableau, Insights and data parsing."

City Education Experience Knowledge Gross salary / year
Los Angeles Bachelors Degree 4-8 Years n/a $123,000 USD

29/50  Software Engineer (Man)
Posted 28 March 2020

What I do?

"Java JavaScript typescript kotlin react."

City Education Experience Knowledge Gross salary / year
San Francisco Bachelors Degree 4-8 Years n/a $120,000 USD

28/50  Data Analyst (Man)
Posted 09 March 2020

What I do?

"This is not what I came here to do."

City Education Experience Knowledge Gross salary / year
Anaheim Bachelors Degree 0-1 Year n/a $70,000 USD

27/50  Senior Software Engineer (Man)
Posted 11 September 2019

What I do?

"Design, develop and maintain IT Solutions, whether on backend, frontend or mobile."

City Education Experience Knowledge Gross salary / year
San Francisco Masters Degree 16-20 Years n/a $300,000 USD

26/50  Web Developer (Man)
Posted 22 August 2019

What I do?

"My main task is to make new software."

City Education Experience Knowledge Gross salary / year
San Francisco Some College 4-8 Years n/a $45,000 USD

25/50  Director Of IT (Man)
Posted 06 June 2019

What I do?

"Work hard, rest. Repeat."

City Education Experience Knowledge Gross salary / year
San Francisco Masters Degree 20+ Years n/a $290,500 USD

24/50  Software Engineer (Man)
Posted 12 April 2019

What I do?

"Developing new database engine."

City Education Experience Knowledge Gross salary / year
San Jose Masters Degree 20+ Years n/a $165,000 USD

23/50  Senior Software Developer (Man)
Posted 09 April 2019

What I do?

"Salesforce and developing packaging."

City Education Experience Knowledge Gross salary / year
San Francisco Masters Degree 4-8 Years n/a $100,000 USD

22/50  Engineering Manager (Man)
Posted 08 April 2019

What I do?

"Manage Hardware engineer."

City Education Experience Knowledge Gross salary / year
San Francisco Masters Degree 20+ Years n/a $195,000 USD

21/50  Coder (Man)
Posted 02 March 2019

What I do?

"I code programs as my routines."

City Education Experience Knowledge Gross salary / year
Anaheim Some College 0-1 Year n/a $40,000 USD

20/50  Software Engineer (Man)
Posted 18 February 2019

What I do?

"Oracle pl/sql forms reports java databases."

City Education Experience Knowledge Gross salary / year
Sacramento Bachelors Degree 20+ Years n/a $120,000 USD

19/50  Product Manager (Man)
Posted 07 January 2019

What I do?

"Functional requirements."

City Education Experience Knowledge Gross salary / year
San Francisco Masters Degree 16-20 Years n/a $120,000 USD

18/50  Information Systems Analyst (Man)
Posted 13 November 2018

What I do?

"Web application programming."

City Education Experience Knowledge Gross salary / year
Los Angeles Some College 20+ Years n/a $112,000 USD

17/50  Student Assistant (Woman)
Posted 19 October 2018

What I do?

"Provide IT services to an entire school, ensuring classes and work run smoothly."

City Education Experience Knowledge Gross salary / year
Sacramento Bachelors Degree 2-4 Years n/a $16,800 USD

16/50  Software Engineer (Man)
Posted 12 October 2018

What I do?

"I code good. I certainly code good."

City Education Experience Knowledge Gross salary / year
Oceanside Bachelors Degree 2-4 Years n/a $78,000 USD

15/50  Software Engineer (Man)
Posted 05 October 2018

What I do?

"Writing code, cleaning up code, hiding my contempt for the bosses."

City Education Experience Knowledge Gross salary / year
San Diego Bachelors Degree 16-20 Years n/a $160,000 USD

14/50  Software Engineer (Man)
Posted 21 September 2018

What I do?

"Love the work. regular software dev."

City Education Experience Knowledge Gross salary / year
San Francisco Bachelors Degree 0-1 Year n/a $150,000 USD

13/50  Software Developer Engineer (Man)
Posted 16 September 2018

What I do?

"I'm an iOS engineer."

City Education Experience Knowledge Gross salary / year
San Francisco Bachelors Degree 1-2 Years n/a $165,000 USD

12/50  Chief Information Officer (Man)
Posted 01 September 2018

What I do?

"IT Management in a hospital environment. Ensuring that both software and hardware purchases are vetted out and installed properly."

City Education Experience Knowledge Gross salary / year
Sacramento Bachelors Degree 20+ Years n/a $162,000 USD

11/50  Program Manager (Man)
Posted 21 July 2018

What I do?

"Manager, project, business, technology, it, finance, program, product, support, offshore, strategy,."

City Education Experience Knowledge Gross salary / year
Riverside Bachelors Degree 12-16 Years n/a $140,000 USD

10/50  Programmer (Man)
Posted 05 June 2018

What I do?

"Data Analysis and Machine Learning."

City Education Experience Knowledge Gross salary / year
San Diego Masters Degree 2-4 Years n/a $95,000 USD

9/50  Director Of Engineering (Man)
Posted 08 January 2018

What I do?

"Manage complex IT projects with teams and customers located around the world."

City Education Experience Knowledge Gross salary / year
Los Angeles Bachelors Degree 20+ Years n/a $120,000 USD

8/50  Data Integrity Manager (Man)
Posted 02 January 2018

What I do?

"Data quality management, training."

City Education Experience Knowledge Gross salary / year
San Francisco Bachelors Degree 20+ Years n/a $105,000 USD

7/50  Director (Man)
Posted 15 December 2017

What I do?

"Director of Software Engineering."

City Education Experience Knowledge Gross salary / year
Oakland Bachelors Degree 20+ Years n/a $200,000 USD

6/50  Pgm (Man)
Posted 13 December 2017

What I do?

"Fun job. Iwork with developers and cutomers to get them to talk to eachother."

City Education Experience Knowledge Gross salary / year
Irvine Masters Degree 4-8 Years n/a $75,000 USD

5/50  Filemaker Developer (Woman)
Posted 07 December 2017

What I do?

"Specify, estimate, design, implement and deploy FileMaker database solutions using FileMaker Pro."

City Education Experience Knowledge Gross salary / year
San Jose Masters Degree 4-8 Years n/a $50,000 USD

4/50  Software Developer Support Engineer (Man)
Posted 16 November 2017

What I do?

"Technical Support for Software Engineers."

City Education Experience Knowledge Gross salary / year
San Francisco Bachelors Degree 8-12 Years n/a $65,000 USD

3/50  Senior Engineer (Woman)
Posted 27 October 2017

What I do?

"Develop test deploy monitor production."

City Education Experience Knowledge Gross salary / year
Los Angeles Bachelors Degree 8-12 Years n/a $110,000 USD

2/50  Advanced Analytics Consultant (Man)
Posted 06 October 2017

What I do?

"Advanced analytics and data science solutions."

City Education Experience Knowledge Gross salary / year
San Francisco Masters Degree 20+ Years n/a $160,000 USD

1/50  App. Dev. Consultant (Man)
Posted 10 September 2017

What I do?

"Computer Software Development."

City Education Experience Knowledge Gross salary / year
Los Angeles Some College 20+ Years n/a $125,000 USD


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