Industry · NAICS 5112
Software publishers
The United States has 18,425 employer establishments in software publishers (0.5 per 10,000 residents), employing 1,011,187 people at an average annual pay of $201,426.
In the United States
- Establishments
- 18,425
- — nonemployers
- Per 10,000 residents
- 0.5
- Paid employees
- 1,011,187
- Average annual pay
- $201,426
Places ranked by residents per establishment
Places ranked by residents per establishment: more residents for each business, fewer competitors per resident. A count, not a measure of demand: retirement areas, low incomes or tourism change what a business needs.
| # | Place | vs US | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | El Paso, TX | 876,641 | 5 | 175,328 | 0.1 | 0.10× | 17 | $55,824 | — |
| 2 | Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL | 824,794 | 6 | 137,466 | 0.1 | 0.13× | 40 | $90,125 | — |
| 3 | Bakersfield-Delano, CA | 917,599 | 8 | 114,700 | 0.1 | 0.16× | 63 | $87,714 | — |
| 4 | Modesto, CA | 554,459 | 5 | 110,892 | 0.1 | 0.16× | 19 | $47,632 | — |
| 5 | Fresno, CA | 1,188,936 | 11 | 108,085 | 0.1 | 0.17× | 451 | $108,271 | — |
| 6 | Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC | 629,988 | 6 | 104,998 | 0.1 | 0.17× | 36 | $96,972 | — |
| 7 | Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC | 1,789,325 | 19 | 94,175 | 0.1 | 0.19× | 270 | $133,248 | — |
| 8 | Vallejo, CA | 451,377 | 5 | 90,275 | 0.1 | 0.20× | 34 | $123,853 | — |
| 9 | Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR | 765,621 | 9 | 85,069 | 0.1 | 0.21× | 2,383 | $109,440 | — |
| 10 | Killeen-Temple, TX | 502,497 | 6 | 83,750 | 0.1 | 0.22× | 830 | $107,670 | — |
| 11 | Mobile, AL | 411,693 | 5 | 82,339 | 0.1 | 0.22× | 36 | $147,806 | — |
| 12 | Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA | 4,707,448 | 59 | 79,787 | 0.1 | 0.23× | 5,006 | $131,343 | — |
| 13 | Fort Wayne, IN | 458,325 | 6 | 76,388 | 0.1 | 0.24× | 88 | $134,795 | — |
| 14 | Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, FL | 532,460 | 7 | 76,066 | 0.1 | 0.24× | 53 | $100,660 | — |
| 15 | Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL | 723,779 | 10 | 72,378 | 0.1 | 0.25× | 86 | $103,919 | — |
| 16 | Springfield, MO | 491,446 | 7 | 70,207 | 0.1 | 0.26× | 99 | $100,394 | — |
| 17 | Lancaster, PA | 560,144 | 8 | 70,018 | 0.1 | 0.26× | 66 | $130,803 | — |
| 18 | Lafayette, LA | 415,934 | 6 | 69,322 | 0.1 | 0.26× | 187 | $92,267 | — |
| 19 | Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH | 815,907 | 12 | 67,992 | 0.1 | 0.27× | 106 | $148,868 | — |
| 20 | Rockford, IL | 335,084 | 5 | 67,017 | 0.1 | 0.27× | 672 | $122,473 | — |
| 21 | Springfield, MA | 462,133 | 7 | 66,019 | 0.2 | 0.28× | 94 | $92,330 | — |
| 22 | Tulsa, OK | 1,048,254 | 16 | 65,516 | 0.2 | 0.28× | 307 | $154,720 | — |
| 23 | Roanoke, VA | 314,970 | 5 | 62,994 | 0.2 | 0.29× | 110 | $132,718 | — |
| 24 | Baton Rouge, LA | 878,512 | 14 | 62,751 | 0.2 | 0.29× | 249 | $90,365 | — |
| 25 | Port St. Lucie, FL | 541,816 | 9 | 60,202 | 0.2 | 0.30× | 94 | $119,521 | — |
1–25 of 204 places
Sources: County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024).
- Residents per establishment is the place's population estimate for 2023 divided by its establishments; more residents per business means fewer competitors per resident. Places with fewer than the minimum establishments are left out because a handful of businesses makes the ratio jump around.
- Metro areas are made of whole counties and their figures are the exact sums of those counties'. A metro area is listed under its principal state.
- This compares counts of businesses with counts of residents. It does not measure demand, spending power, visitors, the size or quality of the businesses, or whether a market is open. Employment and payroll carry the Census Bureau's noise infusion.
- County Business Patterns 2023 uses NAICS 2017 codes; the nonemployer figures use NAICS 2022. Industries are matched by name between editions.
- Growth needs a second reference year of County Business Patterns in the same industry classification; only 2023 is loaded, so there is no growth column yet.
Federal contracts in this industry
Federal agencies obligated $7.2B on contracts under NAICS 5132, 5112 in fiscal year 2026, nationwide (8,483 awards, each counted once per county where it was performed).
Metro areas
- 2,774 awards
- Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX$1.1B15%233 awards
- Montgomery, AL$309.9M4.3%27 awards
- Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD$194.2M2.7%247 awards
- Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO$192.1M2.7%142 awards
- San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA$157.1M2.2%89 awards
- Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH$150.2M2.1%311 awards
- Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA$130.9M1.8%135 awards
- St. Louis, MO-IL$84.7M1.2%70 awards
- Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA$79.8M1.1%77 awards
Counties
- District of Columbia, DC$1.5B21%926 awards
- Fairfax County, VA$1.4B19%1,005 awards
- Williamson County, TX$1B14%201 awards
- Montgomery County, AL$309.9M4.3%27 awards
- Arlington County, VA$226M3.1%94 awards
- Denver County, CO$174.3M2.4%29 awards
- Montgomery County, MD$174.1M2.4%320 awards
- Santa Clara County, CA$157.1M2.2%89 awards
- Middlesex County, MA$134.7M1.9%230 awards
- Los Angeles County, CA$129.4M1.8%107 awards
Cities and towns
- Washington city, DC$1.5B21%926 awards
- Reston CDP, VA$826M11%611 awards
- Montgomery city, AL$308.2M4.3%27 awards
- Arlington CDP, VA$226M3.1%94 awards
- Great Falls CDP, VA$221.5M3.1%83 awards
- Denver city, CO$174.3M2.4%29 awards
- Palo Alto city, CA$135.8M1.9%29 awards
- El Segundo city, CA$114.2M1.6%19 awards
- Fort Meade CDP, MD$63.4M0.9%56 awards
- Redmond city, WA$52.4M0.7%6 awards
Where the work was performed, as agencies report it (often the contractor's office). Metro areas are the exact sums of their counties. Cities are estimated: each action's county money split by the share of its ZIP code's land inside the city, so a city's figure is part of its county's.
USAspending.gov, prime award contract transactions (FPDS)