Stack Overflow

Stack Overflow, the go-to resource for developers, offers a useful tool for salary estimates based on data from its yearly global survey of programmers. It allows for searches based on technologies used, years of experience, and location. The tool shows the 25th, 50th, and 75th percentiles of salaries for developers with the chosen parameters. We looked for programmers in the United States who use Node.js and have bachelor's degrees, and we zeroed in on the 50th percentile.

According to Stack Overflow, Node.js developers earn between $83,000 for those starting out to $115,000 for those with 15 years of experience.

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ZipRecruiter

ZipRecruiter only lets you search for different job titles, excluding most of the tools used to show gradations in pay over the course of a developer's career. We looked at the average pay rate for both Node.js developers ($103,677) and Senior Node.js developers ($108,878).

Language specific	Yes
Geography	Yes
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Seniority	Yes
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Glassdoor

Glassdoor doesn't let you search by specific numbers of years of experience, but it allows you to search by spans of time, such as 4-6 years, 7-9 years, and so on. Each salary search on Glassdoor yields a distribution of salaries with an average, which we used for our measurements.

Entry-level Node.js programmers can expect $81,618 (the lowest estimate of all the sites we surveyed), while experienced devs with 15 years under their belts earn an average of $106,381.

Language specific	Yes
Geography	Yes
Years of experience	Yes
Seniority	Yes
Education level	No

PayScale

PayScales extensive search parameters include not only job title, location and years of experience, but criteria like what product the company sells and an employee's previous military experience. We looked at Node.js developers in Austin, Texas with a Bachelor's Degree in the market for a "Back End Developer / Engineer" job and Node.js as a required skill.

We averaged the high and low estimates PayScale provided for each year of experience. Inexperienced developers start at $80,500, and those with upper level seniority can expect $132,500—by far the highest estimate of any site.

Language specific	Yes
Geography	Yes
Years of experience	Yes
Seniority	Yes
Education level	Yes

Indeed

Indeed doesn't have specific data for years of experience or location, and it contains no data on the salaries of Node.js programmers, only broader categories. We searched "Backend developer", which the site claims earn an average of $127,202, which strikes us as about what someone with 7-9 years of experience could expect.

Language specific	No
Geography	Yes
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Final results

Aggregated together, this is what a Node.js developer can expect to earn in the United States.

Node.js Developer Salaries, August 2020

Years of experience	Zip Recruiter	GlassDoor	PayScale	Indeed	Stack Overflow	Average
0-1	-	$81,618	$91,750.00		$84,000.00	$85,789
1-3	-	$89,114	$99,500.00		$87,000.00	$91,871
4-6	$103,677	$88,928	$110,833.33		$93,000	$99,110
7-9	$108,878	$96,100	$119,500.00	$127,202	$99,000.00	$110,136
10-14	$108,878	$102,014	$129,600.00		$108,400.00	$112,223
15+	$108,878	$106,381	$136,500.00		$115,000.00	$116,690

We combined years of experience and averaged them out to get a figure for each year range (for example, the salary of a Node.js developer on Stack Overflow at 4 years, 5 years, and 6 years were averaged to get the figure for those with 4-6 years of experience).

Overall, Junior Node.js developers earn about $85,78 and Senior Node.js developers earn about $116,690.

Your mileage can obviously vary, and none of these factors in the specifics of the hiring company or the exigency with which they're trying to fill a role. Since these are ultimately average values, roughly 50% of developers will earn more than the average, and 50% will earn less.

But if you're an HR director just getting your bearings or a developer wondering what you’re worth salary-wise, this information above is a good place to start.

Written by

David Jackson

As the CEO of FullStack Labs, my primary responsibility is for the management of the company. I manage and directly contribute to many different departments within the company, including recruiting and hiring, marketing and sales, bookkeeping and accounting, tax and legal, and general operations. I take a hands on approach to management, meaning I prefer to roll up my sleeves and work directly on projects, instead of managing through meetings, policy, and bureaucracy. Prior to FullStack Labs, I was Vice President of Sales and Partner at CAE, where we built an industry-leading marketplace for buying and selling used capital equipment. I graduated Summa Cum Laude from the California State University Sacramento with a degree in Business Administration.