Software engineer salaries by country
Bloomberg published a study on salaries of software engineers compared by country. Even though the seniority levels or expertise areas were not revealed, assuming the comparison was made on apple-to-apple, data in below chart gives an idea on welfare levels of employees’ working in software development field compared to their colleagues in other countries.
One thing to keep in mind while reading the below figures, is that these comparison would not reflect the cost of a software engineer to a company, mainly due to differences in taxation and fringe benefits of employees in different countries.
Country | Ratio of median | Median annual pay of | Average |
---|---|---|---|
Pakistan | 5.56 | 7200 | 1296 |
India | 3.91 | 6200 | 1584 |
South Africa | 3.64 | 24000 | 6595 |
Bulgaria | 3.28 | 25200 | 7682 |
China | 3.15 | 23100 | 7333 |
Ukraine | 2.96 | 11600 | 3919 |
Philippines | 2.69 | 7900 | 2935 |
Brazil | 2.46 | 27300 | 11080 |
Egypt | 2.19 | 7300 | 3333 |
Mexico | 2.04 | 22000 | 10767 |
Sri Lanka | 1.98 | 6700 | 3385 |
Indonesia | 1.87 | 6400 | 3417 |
Israel | 1.86 | 70700 | 38004 |
Czech Republic | 1.75 | 33000 | 18846 |
Turkey | 1.72 | 17100 | 9920 |
Poland | 1.60 | 22600 | 14136 |
Russia | 1.51 | 22100 | 14645 |
Argentina | 1.45 | 14000 | 9640 |
Malaysia | 1.45 | 16500 | 11387 |
Hungary | 1.44 | 19300 | 13363 |
United States | 1.38 | 76000 | 54980 |
New Zealand | 1.37 | 59600 | 43429 |
Germany | 1.33 | 63800 | 47893 |
United Kingdom | 1.28 | 56200 | 43830 |
Lithuania | 1.25 | 21000 | 16742 |
Spain | 1.22 | 37000 | 30432 |
France | 1.21 | 54700 | 45123 |
Switzerland | 1.21 | 104200 | 86145 |
Denmark | 1.16 | 71500 | 61889 |
Canada | 1.15 | 57500 | 49838 |
Ireland | 1.13 | 53900 | 47793 |
Greece | 1.12 | 25300 | 22594 |
Taiwan | 1.12 | 24000 | 21436 |
Australia | 1.08 | 65900 | 61137 |
Netherlands | 1.08 | 53900 | 49765 |
Japan | 1.07 | 40700 | 38142 |
Saudi Arabia | 1.05 | 26600 | 25229 |
Finland | 1.04 | 51500 | 49479 |
Sweden | 1.03 | 61400 | 59727 |
Belgium | 1.01 | 48400 | 47787 |
Portugal | 0.99 | 21600 | 21766 |
Italy | 0.96 | 34900 | 36216 |
Ausria | 0.94 | 49300 | 52216 |
Norway | 0.82 | 81400 | 99574 |
Hong Kong | 0.73 | 29400 | 40175 |
Singapore | 0.70 | 38800 | 55568 |
Romania | 0.68 | 6500 | 9516 |
United Arab Emirates | 0.65 | 29000 | 44330 |
Kuwait | 0.54 | 25200 | 46342 |
Qatar | 0.35 | 33400 | 96635 |