Los Angeles County / Public Social Services Department / Principal Application Developer
Job-title file
Lead staff and operations — set priorities, allocate resources, and oversee program delivery.
8 employees hold this title in Public Social Services Department. Median total compensation for the role is $256,837, above the department median of $111,187.
What the records show
How total compensation varies among the 8 people in this role. Even for one job title, pay differs with seniority, step, overtime, and tenure. Each bar is a pay range; the far-right bar collects the highest earners.
Compared with the local labor market
Across all employers in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA area, the median wage for Software Developers — about 55,540 people — is $160,920. Public Social Services Department pays a median base salary of $152,400 for this role, 5% below that figure — about the 44th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Software Developers across every employer in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA area, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Public Social Services Department’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Software Developers — about 1,687,890 people — is $135,980. Public Social Services Department’s median base salary is 12% above that national figure, about the 61st percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.
Local and national wages differ for reasons beyond how well a job pays — cost of living, the mix of employers, and local demand for the occupation all move the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA range relative to the national one.
Median total compensation for this role at Public Social Services Department is $256,837, which includes overtime and employer-paid benefits. The benchmark above excludes both, so total compensation is deliberately not compared against it.
Benchmark: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025). BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) covers all employers in the area — private, non-profit, and government alike — so this is a comparison against the whole local labor market for the occupation, not against private-sector pay. OEWS wages are straight-time pay and exclude overtime, shift differentials, and employer-paid benefits, so the government figure shown here is base pay on the same basis. Total compensation is not comparable to it. Job titles are matched to the closest standard occupation, so the comparison is between similar work rather than an identical job classification.
Compare departments
Principal Application Developer is held in 28 Los Angeles County departments. In Public Social Services Department, the median of $256,837 ranks #10 of 28.
Median total compensation for the Principal Application Developer role in other Los Angeles Countydepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.
Record list
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Principal Application Developer/Public Social Services Department
Byoung Bae works as a Principal Application Developer for Public Social Services Department. Byoung earned $262,546 in 2025.
Principal Application Developer/Public Social Services Department
Philip Gundala holds the role of Principal Application Developer at Public Social Services Department. In 2025, their total compensation was $262,198.
Principal Application Developer/Public Social Services Department
At Public Social Services Department, David Nguyen serves as a Principal Application Developer. Their 2025 pay totaled $261,584.