Frontend Developer salary
What a frontend developer actually earns, from 333 live job postings blended with the official US OEWS (Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics) wage anchor. Pick a market for its median and range, then read the seniority split, the trend, and the country comparison below. Updated 2026-09-06.
Switch the market above to see frontend developer pay in the 3 countries our sources cover, each with its own cost of living. The trend, seniority, and state detail below are United States data, where the official record runs deepest.
What the number means
A frontend developer earns a blended US median near 116,599 dollars, with the typical middle running from 93,309 dollars to 161,020 dollars. The official OEWS median is 90,930 dollars, under the posted figure, because the advertised roles skew senior or well-funded. The official trend has moved up about 18 percent since 2021. By seniority, posted pay runs from roughly 68,046 dollars to 95,505 dollars. Demand is rated high, and 10% of postings are fully remote. The nearest adjacent move on our skill graph is mobile developer, at 62 percent coverage; the instrument maps the rest.
Open frontend developer roles
Live openings tagged to this occupation, from company career pages and remote boards. Apply at the source.
Senior Frontend Engineer - London at PerkLondonTodayApply
Senior Frontend Developer (all genders) at LightspeedhqBerlin2d agoApply
Frontend Engineer at FacultyUK - London2d agoApply
Senior Frontend Engineer - Streaming at VerkadaSan Mateo, CA United States$175k–$275k2d agoApply- Frontend Engineer - UI Frameworks & Designsysteme (m/w/d) at Zürcher KantonalbankZürich, Zürich, Switzerland2d agoApply
Front End Developer at EpicorMonterrey, N.L.2d agoApply
By seniority
Posted-median pay by seniority signal in the title, from our corpus. Noisy at the edges where sample sizes are small.
By country
- United States$93,309$116,599$161,020
- United Kingdom$62,105$78,451$96,187
- India$10,440$13,049$18,269
Switzerland · official wage bands
median CHF 9'949/month
Swiss postings do not state pay, so these are not posted salaries: they are the federal wage survey (Lohnstrukturerhebung 2024) for the ISCO group 25 Spezialisten in der Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologie: standardized gross monthly, full-time, 13th salary included pro rata. The band covers the whole occupation group, which is coarser than this occupation alone.
Annual ≈ CHF 119'388 at the median. Source: Bundesamt für Statistik, LSE 2024.
Top-paying US states
OEWS median by state, highest first.
- California$117,380
- Washington$112,010
- Texas$93,120
- Pennsylvania$89,910
- Utah$80,350
- New York$67,400
Roles that pay more, that these skills already reach
Median pay from each destination’s own postings, with the readiness a frontend developer profile already covers.
- 600 open software engineer roles$185,617 median · +$69,018 · 36% readiness
- 600 open devops engineer roles$141,732 median · +$25,133 · 12% readiness
- 393 open ai engineer roles$141,460 median · +$24,861 · 15% readiness
- 600 open backend developer roles$130,255 median · +$13,656 · 25% readiness
Every measured move out of this role, ranked by readiness: alternative careers for a frontend developer.
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Related salaries
- Mobile Developer salary$126,321 median
- QA Engineer salary$112,217 median
- Software Engineer salary$185,617 median
Quick answers
How much does a frontend developer make?
The blended US median is about 116,599 dollars, with a typical range from 93,309 dollars to 161,020 dollars, against an official OEWS median of 90,930 dollars.
Is frontend developer a good career in 2026?
Demand for the role is rated high in our July 2026 corpus, with 10% of postings fully remote. The pay is shown above by seniority and by country.
What can a frontend developer move into?
The nearest adjacent role on our skill graph is mobile developer, at 62 percent skill coverage. Run the instrument for the full set of reachable moves.
Method: bands are the 25th, 50th, and 75th percentiles of live US postings with stated pay, shrunk toward the official OEWS anchor by sample size (the “blended” figure). Trend is the OEWS annual median for SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code 15-1254. Unemployment is the 2025 BLS (Bureau of Labor Statistics) CPS (Current Population Survey) annual-average rate for “Software developers.” Live corpus 333 observations, 2026-09-06. Definitions in the glossary.