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Web & Software Development: Developer Wage and Job-Market Benchmarks
A free, platform-curated benchmark set of U.S. software and web-development wages and employment — median annual pay for software developers, web developers, QA analysts, security analysts, and network architects, plus total employment and projected growth — from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics. Every figure is period-tagged and sourced. Built for hiring managers, recruiters, and workforce analysts.
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"unit": "USD per year",
"value": "101,800",
"metric": "Software QA analysts and testers - median wage",
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"unit": "USD per year",
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"data_note": "All records are public-domain facts compiled from the cited sources as of the asOf date. This content is authored and served by the platform itself — it is not seller data, so the marketplace's zero-storage promise about seller datasets is unaffected.",
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"Benchmark developer compensation offers against national medians",
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