Highest-Paid Software Engineers: Countries

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21 pointssharmajai3 comments

For the opposite cases, where the average pay for SE's is lower than the countries average, what's going on there I wonder? For countries with an oil based economy I guess this makes some sense to me, but Norway, Romania, etc? What's happening there?

Norway actually caught my attention first as it's an outlier for the average income. Almost $100k per year? I had no idea!

So a software engineer in Romania makes less than the average Romanian. Yeah, right.

And the median income for a software engineer in Bulgaria is $25K. I am from Bulgaria, and I can tell you that is not the case. This is speculating, but I think it's more like $15K.

The US numbers are also very suspicious. The median income for software engineers is well below what the BLS reports[1] (median $92k, mean $96k). The overall average is also significantly higher than the average that the BLS reports[2] (mean $46k). That would put the ratio for the US around 2.

[1] http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes151132.htm [2] http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm

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