"I’m Danish, but it’s like this in all of Scandinavia" Here in Finland the figure you referred (86k$) would be equivalent to director level pay in the public s

"I’m Danish, but it’s like this in all of Scandinavia" Here in Finland the figure you referred (86k$) would be equivalent to director level pay in the public side. An engineer with the package you described would be above average in compensation here. We get 4 to 6 weeks of paid vacation. The average wage in software engineering here is around 40k$ - 57k$ (i.e more or less what you referred). In software engineering, depending on the employer, the degree does not necessarily affect compensation though. Top of the line engineers are well compensated (in the Finnish scale) regardless of their degree. Of course, Finland is not strictly geographically speaking part of Scandinavia (although it is a nordic country) :)