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Your statement on Malaysia and Portugal GDP per capita surprised me. So I did some fact checking. According to Wiki Malaysia’s 2018 GDP per capita is usd 10,941. Portugal is 23,176. [1]

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Portugal

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Malaysia

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If you look at purchasing power parity (PPP), the numbers are closer together: $30,859 (Malaysia) and $32,023 (Portugal).

How many MacBook Pros do you get though. If anything, what the software developers might want is likely more expensive in Malaysia than Portugal. Likewise for India.

Then go define your software developer purchasing power parity index.

Such economic measures are complex, and if you want to see a single number for a country, that number should be representative for everything and everyone

Even in Malaysia expenses for tools such as computers and software is small compared to wages for skilled professionals.

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