Software pros, it’s here: Code & Supply’s full 2023 compensation survey results

How much do Pennsylvania software professionals really get paid?

Now, we have updated data to know: For Allegheny County, at least, median base compensation is around $126,000. That’s up from $114,000 two years ago.

Code & Supply, the Pittsburgh-based community of software professionals, recently released its latest semi-annual survey analyzing tech workers’ compensation. The report highlights the increasing demand for tech talent in the Pittsburgh region and beyond, as well as the growing importance of skills like cloud computing, data analysis and software engineering. Of nearly 800 valid responses, around two-thirds came from the Keystone State, including 60% from Allegheny County.

The survey aimed to address how compensation affects other aspects of work and life, answering questions such as:

• What is the average compensation of a tech worker?
• Given an amount of training and experience, how much can a tech worker expect to be compensated in their city?
• How are tech workers compensated beyond salary?
• Where do they live and work? Where are the tech booms?
• How much of their day do they spend traveling between work and home?
• What do these tech workers do at work?
• Where did they learn their skills?

You can read a snapshot of the preliminary findings here, and download the full report below, including a full description of the methodology and findings:

Download the full survey

The compensation survey was first launched in 2017 in Pittsburgh before expanding nationwide in 2020. For this latest edition, Code & Supply solicited anonymous responses between May and August 2022. As Managing Director Colin Dean wrote at the survey’s launch, the report is meant to be directly useful in improving technologists’ professional lives.

“I believe in strength in numbers and the importance of pay transparency,” he wrote. “This data will inform tech salary negotiations in job offers as well as role changes and regular performance reviews. We want people to feel adequately compensated for the work they do, but also to have some validation of that compensation.”

The 2023 report was authored by Dean, Yvette Menase and Alex D. Zharichenko, with support from other Code & Supply volunteers. Survey sponsors included devrelate.io, Truefit, Technical.ly, RustBuilt and Women in Tech PGH.

P.S. Code & Supply has made this report available via the CC BY-NC-ND license, which means it’s free for non-commercial use. The org is also looking for financial sponsors who want to make sure it happens again in the future by licensing the the report for commercial use within their orgs. Reach out to sponsorship@codeandsupply.co if you’re interested.