2026 Edition · An annual reference on what work pays

Software Developers

Amherst Town-Northampton, MA metropolitan area. Estimated employment 260.

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

Where you sit in the distribution

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$126,670 · 50th
$96,37010th
$106,33025th
$126,67050th
$167,10075th
$210,15090th

That is the medianhalf of software developers in Amherst Town earn more.

Table 1 — Adjusted

$126,670 in Amherst Town buys what $126,400 buys across the country as a whole.

Amherst Town's regional price parity is 100.2 — almost exactly the national average — the nominal figure is close to the real one here, which is not true of most large metros. Adjusted figures for other metros are in the nearby-metros table below.

Table 2 — Nearby metros

The same job, elsewhere in Massachusetts

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

Metro areaMedianAdjustedRPPvs. Amherst Town
Boston$166,090$153,400108.3+21.4%
Pittsfield$154,860$162,80095.1+28.9%
Worcester$146,950$143,300102.5+13.4%
Barnstable Town$133,690$135,90098.4+7.6%
Springfield$127,740$133,00096.1+5.2%
Amherst Town This page$126,670$126,400100.2

Price parity and difference against Amherst Town 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
260 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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