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$132,750

median · per year, annualized USD

Median over time ▼ -27.5%
$183,201 $132,750
$99.4k 25th
$132.8k Median
$200k 75th
$77.3k
$200k
Box 25th–75th · whiskers 10th–90th Full range $5k – $687.2k · outliers off-axis
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Highest-paying jobs

Inspired Thinking Group (ITG)

Lead Java Developer

Inspired Thinking Group (ITG) · Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

£520,000 – £520,000 Moniepoint

Senior Java Engineer

Moniepoint · Remote, Nigeria

$520,000 – $520,000 Moniepoint

Senior Backend Engineer (Java)

Moniepoint · Remote, Nigeria

$520,000 – $520,000 Moniepoint

Senior Backend Engineer (Java)

Moniepoint · Remote, Bangalore

$520,000 – $520,000 CLEAR - Corporate

Senior Software Engineer, Java

CLEAR - Corporate · New York, New York, United States

$225,000 – $300,000 CLEAR - Corporate

Senior Software Engineer, Java

CLEAR - Corporate · Austin, Texas, United States

$210,000 – $280,000 Captivation Software

Software Engineer 2 - AWS/Hadoop/Accumulo/Terraform/Python/Java

Captivation Software · Annapolis Junction, MD

$130,000 – $270,000 Captivation Software

Software Engineer 3- Python/Kotlin/Java/Terraform/ElasticSearch/OpenSearch/AWS

Captivation Software · Annapolis Junction, MD

$130,000 – $270,000 Captivation Software

Software Engineer 2 (Hybrid) - Java/MapReduce/Accumulo/Hadoop

Captivation Software · Annapolis Junction, MD

$130,000 – $270,000 Captivation Software

Software Engineer 2 - Java/MapReduce/Cloud/GhostMachine/QTA

Captivation Software · Annapolis Junction, MD

$130,000 – $270,000

Top companies hiring

Company Median Roles
Captivation Software $200,000 24
Elastic $118,060 18
Referral Board $118,411 10
Accenture Federal Services $138,100 4
Bloomreach $56,441 4
Moniepoint $520,000 3
SentinelOne $180,550 3
CA Capco $95,057 3

Java salary by location

Location Median Roles
Chicago $200,000 7
New York $187,500 5
San Francisco $122,500 3
Toronto $101,279 4

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