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> A web and software developer in Africa earns from $10,000 to $20,000 dollars per annum whereas their colleagues in Europe and the US earns at least $100,000 dollars per year.

"at least $100,000 dollars per year"

..."at least $100,000 dollars per year"

Where can I find one of these mythical minimum-100k-salary programming jobs, without having 10+ years of experience and working for a massive tech company?

Source: UK twenty-something.

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Silicon Valley and the financial industry. Those have always been the high paying options. But outside those areas, most normal programming jobs are closer to half that.

Honestly, if an African programmer makes $20,000 per year, he's not that far behind a starting Dutch programmer (though programmers here are seriously underpaid compared to managers, for example).

In London with 5 years experience that's a reasonable estimation for web developers, especially if you are contracting

If anything, that's an average for well-seasoned developers in one of the best paying cities in Europe. Not a minimum salary ("at least") of a regular programmer in Europe in general.

Last few places I've worked, in London, devs with 10+ years were getting around $70 000.

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