Software Developers
Greensboro-High Point, NC metropolitan area. Estimated employment 1,710.
Where you sit in the distribution
That is the median — half of software developers in Greensboro earn more.
$125,190 in Greensboro buys what $134,800 buys across the country as a whole.
Greensboro's regional price parity is 92.9 — 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.
What comes next
Median offered base pay by seniority for Software Developers in Greensboro, classified from job titles on visa filings.
The same job, elsewhere in North Carolina
Adjusted figures apply each metro's regional price parity, so the columns are directly comparable.
| Metro area | Median | Adjusted | RPP | vs. Greensboro |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charlotte | $135,920 | $139,600 | 97.3 | +3.6% |
| Durham | $135,620 | $139,000 | 97.6 | +3.1% |
| Asheville | $134,350 | $139,200 | 96.5 | +3.3% |
| Raleigh | $132,770 | $135,300 | 98.2 | +0.3% |
| Rocky Mount | $130,600 | $148,400 | 88.0 | +10.1% |
| Pinehurst | $130,240 | $147,400 | 88.3 | +9.4% |
| Burlington | $127,570 | $136,900 | 93.2 | +1.5% |
| Greensboro This page | $125,190 | $134,800 | 92.9 | — |
Price parity and difference against Greensboro are in the full table on wider screens.
Nominal against real
The same median, once as published and once restated in 2025 dollars.
Published pay rose 22.0% over the five years to 2025. Adjusted for inflation it still rose 2.7% — pay has outrun prices since 2021. The two lines meet at the right edge by construction, since 2025 is the base year.
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.
- Career ladder
- Seniority classified from job titles on the same visa filings; levels shown only with five or more filings each and a strictly rising progression.
- Inflation
- Real figures deflate by CPI-U annual averages (BLS, all items, US city average).
- Employment
- 1,710 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.
Percentiles are reported exactly as released and are never interpolated between published values. We take no payment from employers, recruiters or anyone else for how any figure is presented.