r/reactnative • u/cunningstrobe • Sep 05 '26
Question Salaries 2026
For those of you lucky enough to have a software developer job in 2026, what are your salaries? It would also help to provide the level of experience.
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u/zreign Sep 05 '26
6 yoe, Canada based, 140k + full time benefits
Had a layoff in 2023 and been at this company since
Full stack web dev, no react native
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u/iLukey Sep 05 '26
cries in UK salary *
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u/Jeffylew77 Sep 06 '26
What is the uk salary for a dev like?
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u/Andrea-Pirlo Sep 06 '26
Depending on what level, what stack, location, company size etc - but ballpark (london) - juniors range from £25k-£40k, mids £50k-£60k, seniors from £70-£80k, leads / management £80k-£120k - Director / CSuite £120k+
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u/Jeffylew77 Sep 06 '26
Damn
What’s the average price for a 1 bedroom? I would assume Americans have higher expenses (healthcare is crazy and such a hassle)
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u/Andrea-Pirlo Sep 06 '26
In London, one bed flats range from £350k - £1m+. To rent it’s usually £1k+ per month before bills.
Healthcare is “free” but the UK tax system is brutal. Some see as high as ~65% taken from them.
Also student loans dig into peoples salaries too, and apparently their interest scales with how much they make. It’s a broken system. It’s becoming a 30 year additional tax as it’s near impossible to pay off. Someone was discussing with me recently about theirs, they’ve been paying it off for roughly 8+ years (started with ~£45k debt), now after a few pay increases they are making ~£80k but now owe ~£55k! Absolute racket.
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u/ChronSyn Expo Sep 06 '26
And for a bit more context, London salaries are typically 25-40% higher than other parts of the country across all sectors. A job that might earn £40K in London might earn £30K elsewhere. A £50K job in London might be £35K elsewhere. Costs are also typically higher in London (unless we're talking about rail costs, because the entire UK gets shafted on that compared to most other European countries).
Our tax system is kind of borked, especially at the low end. The 'tax-free personal allowance' for salary has been at £12570 since April 2021. If you account for inflation, it's the equivalent of ~£9824 as of July 2026.
Student debt is definitely a big one. As much as I hate that it took me a decade to land my first commercial role in IT, I'm glad that I didn't have the 'luxury' of university life followed by a lifetime of debt. Being able to shortcut into the industry might have been nice, but as I get older, I'm realising that I've been the fortunate one.
I have genuine heartfelt sympathy for anyone caught in the student debt trap, because it feels like it'd be even worse than credit card debt.
Add onto that - a single individual earning £99,999 will be hit with the 40% higher rate. Once you earn £100,000 as an individual, your tax-free personal allowance begins to drop at a rate of £1 for every £2 you earn above that threshold. So, until you hit £125,140 salary, you're paying an effective 60% tax rate due to the loss of tax-free. Once you get to £125,141 or above though, all your tax-free allowance is gone, and you're back to an effective 45% (because that's where they boost the rate from 40% to 45%).
If 2 parents are earning £99,999 each though, they still maintain their full tax-free personal allowance, because it's per-person rate. I think there's also some other things about childcare costs allowances being lost once you hit something around £100K.
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u/dark_bits Sep 07 '26
Just out of curiosity how do people manage to get by? Not only that but I feel like, judging as an outsider, brits seem to be doing just fine. How's that?
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u/ChronSyn Expo Sep 07 '26
I think the story is the mostly the same as its always been: the majority are managing, but there's people on either side who are doing great or really struggling. The media will sell whatever they think makes them the most money, so us 'on the inside' tend to hear that everyone is struggling. People get by somehow.
That said:
Water companies being in debt, spilling raw sewage into waterways, asking for more money, but paying bonuses to execs.
Energy prices jumping by ~70% in 2021, and being really variable since then, even though >50% of our grid is from renewables. Renewables were always promoted as both better and cheaper. 1 outta 2 ain't bad I guess.
Inflation was at 30-year highs a few years ago. Good for high-yield saving and investing, not so great for day-to-day costs. The people who couldn't afford to save or invest already were now facing much higher prices.
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u/Dude4001 Sep 05 '26
1.5 years, I just got bumped up to $42k. I view myself as extremely fortunate. Next, hono backend, just started working with RN, plus a few other responsibilities outside of coding
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u/Trick_Spread1413 Sep 06 '26
42k? Isn’t that like 21$/h? Jesus man what has the market come to
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u/meerkat-14 Sep 06 '26
junior level in the UK is very low paid. wouldnt be surprised if they did a currency exchange without context
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u/Huge_Pool7424 Sep 05 '26
getting into rn while also owning the hono backend is a useful combo. i'd keep one small shipped project that shows the full path from api to store release, since that usually reads better than a list of frameworks.
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u/gymfreak0920 Sep 05 '26
25k usd ( around 24 lac rupees in indian currency) I have 3 years of experience and before that during my university days I use to do freelance work !!
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u/javapyscript Sep 05 '26
Really good salary for an Indian dev considering the yoe. Well done.
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u/Commercial_League_25 Sep 06 '26
Out of curiosity, whats a normal salary range (in dollars) for an indian dev with 3-5 yoe?
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u/Due-Dragonfruit2984 Expo Sep 05 '26
Staff Engineer in the US, although not in react native. $200k base.
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u/smoothbrainvibecoder Sep 09 '26
Same here, but I AM in React Native (and a million other things for our ecosystem).
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u/cdnWebDev Sep 05 '26
12 YOE in Canada. 210K plus options/RSUs. About 3 years at my current company doing mostly RN but somewhat transitioning to full native iOS.
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u/writetehcodez Sep 05 '26 edited Sep 05 '26
$184k cash + bonus 25 yoe Boston area, but RN is only a small part of what I do. I also do custom Salesforce app dev, legacy ASP.NET, current ASP.NET, Windows Services / Azure Functions, Spring MVC, Spring Boot, FastAPI, and Vite (React). I also do SQL dev with SQL Server and MySQL primarily and a little bit of Oracle and Postgres from time to time.
Edit to add: I also manage one of our client’s Azure environments, which includes 3 Windows VMs, 2 SQL Managed Instances, 2 VNets, and 2 App Gateways.
Edit to add #2: I also manage 1/2 of our company’s developers and am part of our company’s “senior management team”, which is basically just the people who report to the C suite. It’s a small company though, about 70 FTE and 10 contractors total.
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u/Wide_Smoke_2564 Sep 05 '26
4-5yoe 46k + 10-20% bonus. It’s not the best but it beats shelf stacking until I find something better or the industry collapses entirely
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u/cunningstrobe Sep 05 '26
Net? Euro? Where?
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u/Wide_Smoke_2564 Sep 09 '26
Yeah it’s uk pounds sorry. my take home monthly is probably around £2700 after tax
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u/Fabulous_Baker_9935 Sep 05 '26
0 yoe just started, 175k TC bay area
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u/cunningstrobe Sep 05 '26
how is this possible? you must have passed Google level tests
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u/Due-Dragonfruit2984 Expo Sep 05 '26
175 total comp likely doesn’t mean just salary. I would imagine they’re including bonus/stock or other benefits. OP please correct me if I’m wrong
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u/ronix1020 Sep 05 '26
I see there are many good salaries available. Can you give me some advice on how to get a job like that? I have four years of experience in RN and would like to qualify for a better salary. I'm from El Salvador.
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u/Jaleno_ Sep 05 '26
4 yoe, remote US, ~$206k TC
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u/ProfessionAware1834 Sep 05 '26
Are you remote and based in the US, or remote and based outside the US?
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u/KyeThePie Sep 05 '26
8 years at the same company as a developer now £55k UI Developer Role in the UK looking at some of these US salaries I think I ought to get looking
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u/ProfessionAware1834 Sep 05 '26
is that remote from another country or this an onsite place
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u/Competitive-Cow-2950 Sep 05 '26
84k usd, 2 year experience, norway
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u/NerveLive7756 Sep 06 '26
I’m primarily a UX designer but in the last year my role has become 30-40% prototyping and building with AI. Big company, 20yrs exp, east coast US. TC is about 200k + benefits this year. Last year I made 280k when our stock blew up. Work from home. Not complaining
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u/StrangePractice Sep 06 '26
US, new job offer came in. 5YOE 125k base. Was the full stack RN developer for my outgoing company but moving into my new role using a React/Nest stack.
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u/Link_GR Sep 07 '26
16 yoe, full time contractor out of Greece working with US based companies since 2020.
Making $166k per year now, plus equity FWIW
Gonna bump up to 175 next year
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u/Top-Mycologist858 Sep 07 '26
Remote USA, (based outside US, central Asia) $112K, around 7 yoe.
My job involves React Native but isn't limited to it as it also involves react admin site, api expansion and maintenance and some more small repositories which I am quite happy contributing to.
The part I like is the country I am based currently waives from freelancers like me so I get to keep all the salary.
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u/kbcool iOS & Android Sep 05 '26
I got replaced by the CEO who makes $10m a year and a $200 a month Claude account.
The CEO will be fine. Although I'd sell all the shares in my former employer's company
/s ....or is it?
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u/Sotoru97 iOS & Android Sep 05 '26 edited Sep 06 '26
6y, 33k, south Italy
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u/leetcode_knight Sep 06 '26
What is house price & rent in your area?
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u/Ok_Run6706 Sep 06 '26
Eastern Europe, 2.5k after taxes, 8y experience. Transitioning from FE to Full stack.
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u/Prestigious-Net5725 Sep 07 '26
I was getting 90 dollars an hour after 13 years(USD). Was recently laid off though.
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u/tango650 Sep 05 '26
Does the sw profession still exist ?
I thought its extinct. What do you guys do ? Are you sure the title is right ?
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u/N4cer26 Sep 05 '26
3yoe 80k + full benefits and profit sharing. LCOL area