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Software Application Engineers
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Job Numbers and Growth
Government data shows about 507,000 for software application engineers. The unemployment rate for this occupation is relatively very low.
Part-Time Work and Self-Employment
3% of people working as employees are employed part-time. Software application engineers work for themselves about 2% of the time.
Training and Education
Education requirements for this career usually include a bachelor's degree. Approximately 85% of people working as employees have earned a degree. Among software application engineers about 13% went to college but did not get a degree. Among workers, 2% have a high school diploma, but no college education. Recommended schools are shown in the column to the right; request information from them to help you decide which, if any, could help you with this career.
Area Job Conditions
Jobs are relatively more common in Olympia (Washington), San Jose (California), and Lowell (Massachusetts), and less common in El Paso (Texas), Elkhart (Indiana), and Shreveport (Louisiana).
Average income is highest in San Jose (California), Salinas (California), and Lowell (Massachusetts) and lowest in Macon (Georgia), Redding (California), and Jonesboro (Arkansas).
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Software Application Engineers: Job and Salary Data by Metropolitan Area
The table below shows data for Software Application Engineers, as of 2008. The Popularity in Area number tells you how common jobs for Software Application Engineers are in the area, compared to other US metro areas. A value of 1.0 means an average number of people in the position for area population. Lower numbers mean fewer of these positions in the metro area. The most popular areas for Software Application Engineers are starred .
State Area Positions Typical Pay Popularity in Area Alabama Birmingham 720 $71,610 0.3 Alabama Decatur 40 $56,640 0.2 Alabama Florence 40 $44,330 0.2 Alabama Huntsville 1,290 $86,880 1.5 Alabama Mobile 270 $64,480 0.4 Alabama Montgomery 200 $80,430 0.3 Alaska Anchorage 190 $81,040 0.3 Alaska Fairbanks 40 $48,260 0.3 Arizona Flagstaff 70 $83,160 0.3 Arizona Phoenix 6,150 $73,790 0.8 Arizona Prescott 40 $83,120 0.2 Arizona Tucson 1,160 $86,360 0.8 Arkansas Fayetteville 340 $67,590 0.4 Arkansas Fort Smith 120 $60,650 0.3 Arkansas Hot Springs 50 $54,550 0.4 Arkansas Jonesboro 70 $49,930 0.4 Arkansas Little Rock 900 $68,150 0.6 California Bakersfield 550 $92,480 0.5 California Chico 50 $92,010 0.2 California Fresno 340 $80,010 0.2 California Modesto 140 $94,980 0.2 California Napa 40 $96,570 0.2 California Oakland 7,530 $102,360 1.7 California Oxnard 1,690 $85,220 1.4 California Redding 80 $44,960 0.3 California Riverside 1,270 $79,800 0.2 California Sacramento 3,410 $81,950 0.9 California Salinas 230 $123,180 0.4 California San Diego 6,220 $86,560 1.1 California San Francisco 10,830 $102,140 2.6California San Jose 17,990 $108,170 4.6California Santa Ana 6,850 $102,300 1.1 California Santa Barbara 600 $86,650 0.9 California Santa Cruz 260 $80,710 0.8 California Santa Rosa 620 $97,350 0.8 California Stockton 150 $80,990 0.2 California Vallejo 230 $81,440 0.5 California Visalia 80 $86,360 0.1 Colorado Boulder 2,790 $98,500 4.3Colorado Colorado Springs 1,650 $89,830 1.6 Colorado Denver 10,680 $90,960 2Colorado Fort Collins 400 $87,170 0.8 Colorado Grand Junction 60 $96,430 0.3 Colorado Greeley 120 $82,630 0.4 Connecticut Bridgeport 2,380 $95,500 1.3 Connecticut Danbury 280 $84,870 1 Connecticut Hartford 4,120 $83,440 1.7 Connecticut New Haven 690 $83,250 0.6 Connecticut Norwich 690 $94,530 1.4 Connecticut Waterbury 110 $84,960 0.4 Delaware Wilmington 1,280 $89,670 0.9 District of Columbia Washington 26,650 $94,850 2.7Florida Cape Coral 230 $89,410 0.3 Florida Deltona 150 $63,390 0.2 Florida Fort Lauderdale 2,310 $77,290 0.7 Florida Fort Walton Beach 300 $75,370 1 Florida Gainesville 160 $88,690 0.4 Florida Jacksonville 1,920 $86,310 0.8 Florida Lakeland 170 $71,490 0.2 Florida Miami 1,370 $68,750 0.3 Florida Naples 120 $82,970 0.3 Florida Ocala 60 $95,950 0.2 Florida Orlando 3,220 $74,750 0.7 Florida Palm Bay 1,620 $87,620 2Florida Panama City 50 $54,900 0.2 Florida Pensacola 160 $63,560 0.3 Florida Sarasota 300 $67,430 0.3 Florida Tallahassee 390 $95,370 0.6 Florida Tampa 4,730 $79,950 0.9 Florida West Palm Beach 980 $85,720 0.4 Georgia Athens 80 0.3 Georgia Atlanta 10,070 $93,160 1 Georgia Augusta 250 $69,010 0.3 Georgia Columbus 390 $77,980 0.9 Georgia Dalton 170 $100,700 0.6 Georgia Macon 60 $54,040 0.2 Georgia Warner Robins 190 $76,360 1 Hawaii Honolulu 670 $73,580 0.4 Idaho Coeur Dalene 100 $84,450 0.5 Illinois Champaign 180 $74,520 0.5 Illinois Chicago 14,140 $88,330 0.9 Illinois Peoria 130 $78,620 0.2 Indiana Bloomington 120 $75,110 0.5 Indiana Columbus 290 $70,180 1.9 Indiana Elkhart 30 $59,600 0.1 Indiana Evansville 390 $46,870 0.6 Indiana Fort Wayne 830 $83,210 1 Indiana Gary 240 $74,140 0.2 Indiana Indianapolis 2,830 $73,210 0.7 Indiana Lafayette 100 $61,030 0.3 Indiana Michigan City 70 $64,450 0.5 Indiana Muncie 130 $59,350 0.8 Indiana South Bend 340 $65,290 0.6 Iowa Cedar Rapids 1,630 $74,530 3Iowa Davenport 180 $74,920 0.2 Iowa Des Moines 1,280 $76,590 0.9 Iowa Dubuque 40 $61,640 0.2 Iowa Iowa City 450 $64,480 1.6 Iowa Sioux City 110 $85,730 0.4 Iowa Waterloo 60 $50,440 0.2 Kansas Topeka 230 $78,190 0.5 Kansas Wichita 620 $59,780 0.5 Kentucky Bowling Green 50 $56,550 0.2 Kentucky Lexington 820 $80,420 0.8 Kentucky Louisville 2,350 $69,530 0.9 Louisiana Baton Rouge 390 $68,280 0.3 Louisiana Lafayette 80 $53,180 0.1 Louisiana Monroe 180 $52,600 0.6 Louisiana New Orleans 440 $80,830 0.2 Louisiana Shreveport 30 $63,960 0 Maine Bangor 60 $63,530 0.2 Maine Lewiston 30 $63,240 0.2 Maine Portland 660 $64,210 0.8 Maryland Baltimore 4,860 $94,870 0.9 Maryland Bethesda 4,400 $99,100 1.8 Maryland Hagerstown 140 $75,240 0.4 Massachusetts Barnstable Town 60 $125,650 0.2 Massachusetts Boston 16,370 $100,240 2.2Massachusetts Brockton 30 $63,640 0.1 Massachusetts Framingham 2,290 $103,470 3.5Massachusetts Haverhill 240 $104,760 0.8 Massachusetts Lawrence 190 $93,240 0.9 Massachusetts Leominster 50 $84,650 0.3 Massachusetts Lowell 2,150 $105,840 4.5Massachusetts New Bedford 40 $76,290 0.2 Massachusetts Pittsfield 80 $75,160 0.7 Massachusetts Springfield 880 $78,040 0.7 Massachusetts Worcester 840 $85,480 0.8 Michigan Ann Arbor 580 $76,040 0.9 Michigan Bay City 50 $63,130 0.4 Michigan Detroit 2,570 $88,420 0.9 Michigan Flint 40 $69,590 0.1 Michigan Grand Rapids 460 $68,340 0.3 Michigan Jackson 110 $72,480 0.6 Michigan Kalamazoo 190 $72,300 0.3 Michigan Lansing 390 $63,930 0.5 Michigan Saginaw 60 $75,300 0.2 Michigan Warren 3,850 $80,560 0.8 Minnesota Duluth 200 $69,320 0.4 Minnesota Minneapolis 13,410 $88,260 1.8 Minnesota Rochester 880 $85,620 2.4Minnesota St Cloud 230 $67,950 0.6 Mississippi Gulfport 180 $61,240 0.4 Mississippi Hattiesburg 50 $71,550 0.2 Mississippi Jackson 640 $63,600 0.6 Mississippi Pascagoula 70 $53,220 0.4 Missouri Columbia 40 $57,230 0.1 Missouri Jefferson City 490 $63,050 1.9 Missouri Kansas City 3,510 $75,650 0.8 Missouri Springfield 580 $52,350 0.7 Missouri St Louis 5,880 $82,020 1 Nebraska Lincoln 930 $60,550 1.4 Nebraska Omaha 2,990 $78,810 1.5 Nevada Las Vegas 890 $77,230 0.2 Nevada Reno 300 $77,240 0.4 New Hampshire Manchester 810 $83,740 2 New Hampshire Nashua 2,410 $91,130 4.3New Hampshire Portsmouth 630 $88,530 3New Hampshire Rochester 130 $77,260 0.6 New Jersey Atlantic City 430 $73,930 0.7 New Jersey Camden 2,120 $80,970 1 New Jersey Edison 10,270 $89,930 2.3New Jersey Newark 5,050 $90,360 1.2 New Jersey Trenton 2,900 $91,130 3.3New Jersey Vineland 40 $81,690 0.2 New Mexico Albuquerque 960 $80,910 0.6 New Mexico Las Cruces 180 $74,890 0.8 New York Albany 1,560 $74,500 0.8 New York Binghamton 410 $84,150 1 New York Buffalo 1,260 $72,140 0.6 New York Ithaca 340 $74,430 2.2New York Nassau 2,130 $93,590 0.4 New York New York 26,410 $95,570 1.2 New York Poughkeepsie 490 $96,120 0.5 New York Rochester 2,190 $84,670 1 New York Syracuse 680 $82,240 0.5 New York Utica 270 $75,940 0.5 North Carolina Asheville 160 $54,520 0.2 North Carolina Burlington 230 $71,310 1 North Carolina Charlotte 2,640 $91,380 0.7 North Carolina Durham 3,140 $94,160 2.8North Carolina Greensboro 740 $85,890 0.5 North Carolina Hickory 90 $67,310 0.1 North Carolina Raleigh 4,390 $85,760 2North Carolina Rocky Mount 40 $84,460 0.2 North Carolina Wilmington 210 0.4 North Carolina Winston Salem 520 $96,540 0.6 North Dakota Bismarck 210 $52,710 1 North Dakota Fargo 380 $66,970 0.8 Ohio Akron 1,020 $78,740 0.7 Ohio Canton 250 $77,760 0.4 Ohio Cincinnati 4,320 $79,400 1 Ohio Cleveland 4,610 $78,430 1 Ohio Columbus 7,000 $81,320 1.8 Ohio Dayton 2,320 $78,230 1.4 Ohio Lima 30 $61,220 0.2 Ohio Mansfield 50 $90,490 0.3 Ohio Sandusky 40 $55,860 0.3 Ohio Springfield 40 $82,230 0.2 Ohio Toledo 320 $68,720 0.2 Oklahoma Oklahoma City 1,160 $67,040 0.5 Oklahoma Tulsa 950 $67,980 0.5 Oregon Bend 130 $77,410 0.5 Oregon Corvallis 140 $82,440 1.3 Oregon Medford 130 $65,340 0.4 Oregon Portland 7,290 $90,470 1.7 Oregon Salem 90 $66,580 0.1 Pennsylvania Allentown 450 $87,690 0.3 Pennsylvania Altoona 50 $74,910 0.2 Pennsylvania Erie 120 $73,820 0.2 Pennsylvania Harrisburg 1,920 $72,350 1.5 Pennsylvania Lancaster 260 $75,500 0.3 Pennsylvania Philadelphia 5,850 $91,550 0.7 Pennsylvania Pittsburgh 3,240 $79,250 0.7 Pennsylvania Reading 90 $87,670 0.1 Pennsylvania Scranton 230 $69,890 0.2 Pennsylvania State College 240 $83,890 1.1 Pennsylvania Williamsport 40 $63,430 0.2 Pennsylvania York 80 $57,380 0.1 Rhode Island Providence 1,080 $85,710 0.5 South Carolina Charleston 310 $73,060 0.3 South Carolina Columbia 510 $74,690 0.3 South Carolina Florence 40 $71,870 0.1 South Carolina Greenville 580 $75,060 0.5 South Carolina Spartanburg 110 $65,550 0.2 South Dakota Rapid City 100 $75,010 0.4 South Dakota Sioux Falls 370 $68,560 0.7 Tennessee Chattanooga 120 $69,180 0.1 Tennessee Clarksville 60 $62,060 0.2 Tennessee Johnson City 60 0.2 Tennessee Kingsport 80 $55,610 0.2 Tennessee Knoxville 510 $71,320 0.4 Tennessee Memphis 450 $72,440 0.2 Tennessee Nashville 1,990 $73,310 0.6 Texas Amarillo 70 $75,890 0.2 Texas Austin 6,660 $93,240 2.1Texas College Station 120 $83,710 0.4 Texas Corpus Christi 60 $73,510 0.1 Texas Dallas 12,550 $91,800 1.4 Texas El Paso 70 $71,510 0.1 Texas Fort Worth 1,620 $87,660 0.4 Texas Houston 8,490 $89,270 0.8 Texas Killeen 120 $89,200 0.3 Texas Lubbock 80 $79,260 0.2 Texas Midland 70 $91,920 0.3 Texas San Antonio 2,690 $74,530 0.8 Texas Waco 70 $73,010 0.2 Utah Logan 80 $52,720 0.5 Utah Ogden 310 $72,870 0.4 Utah Provo 1,190 $81,340 1.8 Utah Salt Lake City 2,890 $78,210 1.1 Vermont Burlington 490 $80,020 1.1 Virginia Blacksburg 290 $55,320 1.3 Virginia Charlottesville 660 $79,030 1.8 Virginia Harrisonburg 110 $86,260 0.6 Virginia Lynchburg 170 $82,140 0.4 Virginia Richmond 3,790 $88,520 1.5 Virginia Roanoke 270 $72,220 0.4 Virginia Virginia Beach 3,150 $77,690 1 Virginia Winchester 50 $83,350 0.3 Washington Bellingham 140 $72,610 0.5 Washington Bremerton 160 $84,710 0.5 Washington Kennewick 160 $89,680 0.5 Washington Olympia 2,520 $72,290 6.9Washington Seattle 21,250 $93,510 3.5Washington Spokane 490 $69,490 0.6 Washington Tacoma 390 $75,320 0.4 West Virginia Charleston 110 $71,880 0.2 West Virginia Morgantown 50 $72,330 0.3 West Virginia Weirton 50 $67,280 0.3 West Virginia Wheeling 60 $64,060 0.3 Wisconsin Appleton 270 $68,660 0.6 Wisconsin Eau Claire 170 $66,830 0.6 Wisconsin Green Bay 630 $71,430 0.9 Wisconsin La Crosse 140 $70,300 0.5 Wisconsin Madison 2,130 $78,330 1.5 Wisconsin Milwaukee 4,320 $74,100 1.2 Wisconsin Oshkosh 160 $67,590 0.5 Wisconsin Racine 190 $74,770 0.6 Wisconsin Sheboygan 80 $66,860 0.4 Wisconsin Wausau 250 $70,220 1 Wyoming Cheyenne 120 $57,880 0.8
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