Software Developers salary in Hawaii

The median Software Developer in Hawaii earned $119,880 in 2024, about 13% below the national median of $138,520. The mean came in at $124,960, which sits close enough to the median that a small group of high earners is not pulling the average far from the middle. The distribution here is relatively even by that measure.

The spread from the 10th to the 90th percentile runs from $53,840 to $194,220. Top earners make roughly 3.6 times what the lowest-paid developers in the state take home. That gap is wide, and it likely reflects differences in how senior someone is, what kind of software they build, and whether they work for a local business or a company based elsewhere.

Hawaii's cost of living sits about 13% above the national baseline. Once you account for that, the nominal discount to the US median deepens. A developer earning the state median here has roughly the same purchasing power as someone earning around $105,900 in an average-cost state. That puts real wages further from national parity than the headline number suggests.

BLS projects growth for Software Developers nationally at 15.8% between 2024 and 2034, which falls in the much faster than average category. Hawaii's employment base for this occupation is small at 1,940 workers, so even modest absolute growth could shift the local market noticeably.