Software Developers salary in Dallas, Texas

With 63,430 Software Developers employed in the Dallas metro, this is one of the larger concentrations of the role in the country. The median annual wage came in at $131,490 in 2024, about $990 above the Texas median of $130,500. The two figures are close enough that Dallas pays roughly in line with what the state reports overall.

Both sit below the national median of $138,520 by about 5%. That gap is real but not large. Texas generally keeps housing and business costs lower than coastal tech hubs, though we do not adjust for that here. The headline numbers are what BLS measured.

The spread across earners is worth attention. The bottom 10% of Software Developers in Dallas earned around $81,600, while the top 10% reached $173,230. Top earners make roughly twice what those at the lower end of the range take home. That kind of gap usually reflects a mix of experience levels, specializations, and the types of companies hiring in a given market. Dallas draws employers across finance, telecom, defense, and enterprise software, so the range of what individual roles pay can vary considerably.

The mean wage of $135,190 runs about $3,700 above the median. When the average pulls ahead of the midpoint like that, a smaller group of higher-paid engineers is lifting it up. The effect is present but not extreme here, which suggests the Dallas market does not skew as heavily toward ultra-high compensation at the top as some other metros.