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Software Developers

Albany, GA metropolitan area. Estimated employment 290.

Data released May 2025 BLS OEWS · SOC 15-1252
Fig. 1 — The wage rule

Where you sit in the distribution

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$124,230 · 50th
$80,61010th
$100,22025th
$124,23050th
$132,61075th
$158,24090th

That is the medianhalf of software developers in Albany earn more.

Table 1 — Adjusted

$124,230 in Albany buys what $141,700 buys across the country as a whole.

Albany's regional price parity is 87.7 — well below the national average — the nominal figure understates local buying power considerably. Adjusted figures for other metros are in the nearby-metros table below.

Table 2 — Nearby metros

The same job, elsewhere in Georgia

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

Metro areaMedianAdjustedRPPvs. Albany
Atlanta$132,960$132,900100.1−6.2%
Albany This page$124,230$141,70087.7
Savannah$123,220$129,40095.2−8.7%
Gainesville$121,940$126,00096.8−11.1%
Macon$120,410$136,00088.5−4.0%
Augusta$119,780$130,30091.9−8.0%
Warner Robins$118,520$126,40093.8−10.8%
Rome$118,030$130,90090.2−7.6%

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

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.
Employment
290 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
Occupation
SOC 15-1252, Software Developers. Mapped to our taxonomy as software-developers.

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