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Oddly,this is only even potentially true in the US. The rest of the world, including Europe, pays devs at the low end of the distribution showed here.
by doktrin 9y ago
Oddly,this is only even potentially true in the US. The rest of the world, including Europe, pays devs at the low end of the distribution showed here.
- adventured 9y agoI was curious which countries (out of the wealthier developed economies), for programmers, are the most out of line vs the median income for that country (based on a full-time job median wage). The best are the US, Denmark, Israel. Germany has a higher median income than the UK, but the UK pays better in programming. Sweden's median income is quite a bit higher than both Germany and the UK, but Germany and the UK pay close to what Sweden does. Canada is at half the rate of the US, drastically below where it should be based on median incomes. The worst is France by a wide margin. The average software engineer salary there is around $38,000. Almost one third that of the US. Switzerland pays very high (still below the US), but their median income is extremely high. New Zealand has a considerably lower median income these days versus Australia, but only pays about 15% less for programmers than what Australia does.
- egman_ekki 9y agoWould be interesting to hear what data sources you used. There was an article on bloomberg about the same metric, but it's 404 now. Seems like the data has been used in this map, though: http://ramiro.org/map/world/income-software-engineers-countries/ http://ramiro.org/map/world/income-software-engineers-countr... (Results are quite different to yours, but this data is 4 yrs old)