Principal Application Developer

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. Registrar-Recorder and County Clerk pays a median base salary of $144,853 for this role, 10% below that figure — about the 38th percentile of local pay for the occupation.

Median total compensation for this role at Registrar-Recorder and County Clerk is $233,415, 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.

Principal Application Developer is held in 28 Los Angeles County departments. In Registrar-Recorder and County Clerk, the median of $233,415 ranks #26 of 28.