Where web developers are commanding the biggest salaries

Young Asian woman software developers using computer to write code sitting at desk with multiple screens work remotely at home. (Credit: Getty Images)

For the past two or three decades, web development has been a growth industry—and one in which millions of people have been able to develop relatively lucrative career paths. The typical web developer in the United States earns $92,750 per year, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. 

Web developers “take what a designer might put together and code the design” to create a website or webpage, says Dan Martino, the digital director and founder of 914Digital, a New York-based digital media company. “If you look at your browser, a developer has taken all of the graphics and coded it.”