2026 Edition · An annual reference on what work pays

Computer Occupations, All Other

Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA metropolitan area. Estimated employment 10,710.

Data released May 2025 BLS OEWS · SOC 15-1299
Fig. 1 — The wage rule

Where you sit in the distribution

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$136,120 · 50th
$60,21010th
$85,86025th
$136,12050th
$172,36075th
$205,06090th

That is the medianhalf of people in this occupation in Seattle earn more.

Table 1 — Adjusted

$136,120 in Seattle buys what $122,500 buys across the country as a whole.

Seattle's regional price parity is 111.1 — well above the national average — a dollar here buys noticeably less than in the US as a whole. Adjusted figures for other metros are in the nearby-metros table below.

Table 2 — Nearby metros

The same job, elsewhere in Washington

Adjusted figures apply each metro's regional price parity, so the columns are directly comparable.

Metro areaMedianAdjustedRPPvs. Seattle
Seattle This page$136,120$122,500111.1
Bellingham$120,540$116,700103.3−4.8%
Bremerton$119,520$113,200105.6−7.6%
Mount Vernon$107,310$104,800102.4−14.5%
Walla Walla$104,590$106,20098.5−13.3%
Olympia$100,620$97,100103.7−20.8%
Wenatchee$94,410$90,900103.9−25.8%
Spokane$92,490$92,200100.3−24.7%

Price parity and difference against Seattle are in the full table on wider screens.

Table 3 — Employers

Who pays what

Median offered salary from visa filings, which disclose employer, title and exact figure. Government wage surveys never publish at this level.

EmployerMedian offerRangeFilingsvs. metro
Meta Platforms$208,000$115k – $287k44+52.8%
Uber Technologies$205,500$170k – $216k6+51.0%
Google$200,000$173k – $245k5+46.9%
Wal-mart Associates$198,173$178k – $243k7+45.6%
Doordash$197,309$166k – $228k6+45.0%
Snowflake$195,000$182k – $214k6+43.3%
Salesforce$191,475$92k – $295k23+40.7%

Offer ranges and filing counts are in the full table on wider screens.

Fig. 2 — Five-year trend

Nominal against real

The same median, once as published and once restated in 2025 dollars.

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Nominal, as published Real, in 2025 dollars US$ thousands

Published pay rose 36.6% over the five years to 2025. Adjusted for inflation it still rose 15.0% — pay has outrun prices since 2021. The two lines meet at the right edge by construction, since 2025 is the base year.

Sources

How this page was made

Wage data
Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 release. Public domain.
Price parity
Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Price Parities, 2024.
Employer pay
Department of Labor, Labor Condition Application disclosures, FY 2025. The table draws on 97 certified filings across 7 employers.
Inflation
Real figures deflate by CPI-U annual averages (BLS, all items, US city average).
Employment
10,710 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
Occupation
SOC 15-1299, Computer Occupations, All Other. Mapped to our taxonomy as computer-occupations-all-other.

Percentiles are reported exactly as released and are never interpolated between published values. Visa filings record offered base salary at time of application, exclude equity and bonus, and skew toward larger employers — treat the employer table as a floor, not an average. We take no payment from employers, recruiters or anyone else for how any figure is presented.