Caterpillar Salaries.
Pay by occupation, from published BLS data.
Last updated August 2026.
The wage figures on this page are published Bureau of Labor Statistics national occupation medians, labeled with their occupation code and release. BLS publishes wages per occupation, never per employer, so they are occupation-level statistics, not Caterpillar pay. Orbyt does not publish or model a Caterpillar-specific salary figure. Last updated August 2026.
Caterpillar is a Fortune 500 employer headquartered in Irving, TX. Orbyt tracks 4 occupations Caterpillar is known to hire, and the highest-paid of them by published national median is Software Developers, at $135,980 in the BLS May 2025 release. These are occupation-level government statistics, not Caterpillar pay; Orbyt does not publish a Caterpillar-specific salary figure.
What BLS publishes for occupations at Caterpillar.
Published national medians from the BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics May 2025 release and May 2024 release, for the occupations Orbyt tracks at Caterpillar. BLS publishes per occupation, never per employer, so these are occupation-level benchmarks, not Caterpillar pay.
Two releases are shown as published cells. BLS advises against reading OEWS releases as a time series, so no growth rate is computed between them. Full dataset: the Orbyt Company Salary Index, CC BY 4.0.
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Common questions about Caterpillar pay.
Estimated bands modeled over national medians, not reported offers.
How much does a software developer at Caterpillar make?
Caterpillar does not publish role-level pay, and Orbyt does not model a Caterpillar-specific figure. The published benchmark: the BLS May 2025 release national median for Software Developers (SOC 15-1252) is $135,980, across 1,687,890 employed workers nationally. Company pay varies around occupation medians with level, location, and market.
Does Orbyt publish Caterpillar salary data?
Orbyt publishes occupation-level benchmarks for Caterpillar, not company-reported pay: published BLS national medians for 4 occupations Caterpillar is known to hire, each labeled with its occupation code and release. The full company coverage is a free CC BY 4.0 download, the Orbyt Company Salary Index, at orbytjobs.ai/company-salary-index.json.
What jobs does Caterpillar hire for?
Caterpillar, headquartered in Irving, TX, hires across occupations including Software Developers, Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers, Mechanical Engineers, Financial and Investment Analysts. Orbyt tracks 4 occupations for Caterpillar, each with the published BLS national median wage for that occupation as a negotiation benchmark.
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