Front-end developers in the US charge roughly $35 to $125 per hour on vetted marketplaces, with agencies billing $110 to $200. Full-time base salaries typically run from $92,000 to $162,000. The band is wide because the title covers everything from page styling to architecting complex application front ends, and buyers pay for the latter.
Vetted marketplace
$35–125
per hour · USA, 2026
Vetted marketplace · like HireDeveloperUSA.com
$35–$125/hour
Development agency
$110–$200/hour
In-house full-time · base salary
$92,000–$162,000/year
Add 25–40% for benefits, payroll taxes and overhead before comparing with hourly front-end developers rates.
Junior
$35 – $60/hour
Mid-level
$60 – $90/hour
Senior
$90 – $125/hour
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Typically $35 to $125 per hour on a vetted marketplace, with mid-level developers around $60 to $90. Agency engagements run $110 to $200 per hour.
The title spans very different jobs. Implementing designs in HTML and CSS is entry-level work; architecting a large single-page application with performance budgets is senior engineering.
Senior base salaries generally land between $130,000 and $162,000 in the US market, with staff-level application architects above that.
If the front end is your product's main surface and complexity, hire the specialist. If you need breadth across a small codebase, a full-stack developer covers more ground per dollar.
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