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Salaries / Software Developers / Charlotte

Software Developers salaries in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC

Auto-summary H-1B filings: DOL disclosure data Prevailing wages: DOL wage year 2026-27

Employers filed 3,937 certified H-1B applications for software developers in the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC area (July 2025 to June 2026), from 1,210 employers.

The middle half of offers were $112,500 to $145,500 a year, with a median of $130,000: 9% below the national median for this job ($143,500).

The most common wage level was Level II (46% of filings).

The 2026-27 prevailing wage floor here is $99,029 at Level I and $118,934 at Level II.

25th percentile$112,500
Median offer$130,000
75th percentile$145,500
National median$143,500

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Wage levels

DOL sets four wage levels by experience. The share of filings at each level, and the minimum the employer must pay for that level here.

LevelShare of filingsPrevailing wage (minimum)
Level I (entry)9%$99,029
Level II (qualified)46%$118,934
Level III (experienced)28%$138,840
Level IV (fully competent)17%$158,746

Who sponsors software developers here

EmployerH-1B filingsMedian offerGreen card filings (PERM, this job, US)
Lowe's Companies, Inc.221$133,500127
Randstad Digital, Llc184$130,000119
Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.153$154,500202
Bank Of America N.A.143$154,500152
Synechron Inc.69$122,00045
Innova Solutions, Inc.67$133,500114
Deloitte Consulting LLP66$129,500369
Capgemini America Inc58$134,000165
Moody's Investors Service, Inc.54$142,00015
Ernst & Young U.S. LLP48$162,50045
LPL Financial LLC45$160,00013
Collabera LLC42$138,5004
Tabner Inc37$112,50021
Artech, LLC36$144,5007
Insight Global, LLC36$133,5009

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Common titles filed under this occupation: Software Engineer, Software Developer, Senior Software Engineer, Software Engineering, Software Dev Engineer Ii, Software Dev Engineer I, Software Development Engineer Ii, Staff Software Engineer.

About this data

Offers are the wages employers put on certified Labor Condition Applications (LCAs) for H-1B workers: Certified H-1B LCAs decided July 2025 to June 2026. An LCA is filed before a petition, so not every filing became a job, and pay excludes bonus and stock. Annual pay; hourly offers are multiplied by 2,080. Pages appear only where there were at least 100 filings. Source: DOL disclosure data and OFLC wage data. Not legal or financial advice.