Working as a software developer in the United States
What official sources say about working as a software developer in the United States: what the occupation group earns and how foreign qualifications are recognised.
In the United States, the occupation group "Professionals", which includes software developers, earns ≈ 7,644 EUR/month (gross, 2025). Software developer is a regulated profession in the United States. Foreign qualifications go through: Contact the prospective employer for its credential-review instructions. The employer may evaluate credentials itself or request a private credential evaluation; where a legal license applies, follow the relevant state or territorial board process.
- Earnings of the occupation group "Professionals"
- ≈ 7,644 EUR/month (gross, 2025)
- Regulation
- Regulated
- Recognition route
- Contact the prospective employer for its credential-review instructions. The employer may evaluate credentials itself or request a private credential evaluation; where a legal license applies, follow the relevant state or territorial board process.
Pay
Earnings of the occupation group "Professionals" in the United States: ≈ 7,644 EUR/month (gross, 2025), from ILO. An occupation group is wider than one job title: it is the pay of everyone the group holds, not of software developers alone.
Regulation and recognition
Software developer is a regulated profession in the United States.
- Recognition route
- Contact the prospective employer for its credential-review instructions. The employer may evaluate credentials itself or request a private credential evaluation; where a legal license applies, follow the relevant state or territorial board process.
- Recognition authority
- For ordinary employment, the prospective employer is the competent authority for reviewing foreign qualifications. If the particular job legally requires a professional license, the appropriate state or territorial licensing authority in the intended work jurisdiction controls that license.
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ImmigrationDB. (2026, October 23). Software developer in the United States: salary and recognition [ImmigrationDB compilation; version 44edb2b047db415769c40d2e62703def]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/software-developer/united-states/ Retrieved 2026-10-23. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/BibTeX citation
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