"Isn't this table just sorted by the PP adjustment factor" No, it isn't, but I do think you're right in that I should have used the nominal wages. I found the

"Isn't this table just sorted by the PP adjustment factor" No, it isn't, but I do think you're right in that I should have used the nominal wages. I found the original article and that does not appear to be purchasing-power adjusted: https://www.daxx.com/article/it-salaries-software-developer-trends-2018 https://www.daxx.com/article/it-salaries-software-developer-... Using the nominal wages gives the below, with France now in the middle of the list: Country Ratio dev:avg Australia 0.81 Netherlands 0.85 Canada 0.90 New Zealand 0.92 Finland 0.92 France 0.92 Switzerland 0.93 Norway 1.02 Denmark 1.05 Germany 1.12 UK 1.15 Sweden 1.15 USA 1.49 Israel 1.53 Whether or not this is a "meaningful result" is still debatable but I'd like to think it gives us something approaching a "developer appreciation metric".