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Salaries for Developers and Designers across the world

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Re: Salaries for Developers and Designers across the world

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Post by antjanus »

sumit_psp wrote: post #2

The next step would be cross reference this with GDP per capita.

I was just thinking that along with other stats. For example:

* industry volume vs need (supply/demand) * average education requirements * comparison to other high paying jobs in that same country (lawyers/doctors in the US) * programming language usage (Ruby, PHP, Javascript, Java whatever else).

and idk. Just to get a good idea of how each country stands.

Re: Salaries for Developers and Designers across the world

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Post by madeofpalk »

These seem to be quite high, especially the Australian salaries.

The average web developer here earns $93,000 AUD?[1] That means that half of web developers are earning more than that.

That's substantially higher than the national median household income of $63,000 AUD [2]

[1]: As few have pointed out, this is correct if we assume the graphic meant average == median. But my point still stands: A reasonable chunk of people get paid more than that.

[2]: http://www.censusdata.abs.gov.au/census_services/getproduct/...

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Post by ddebernardy »

madeofpalk wrote: post #5

These seem to be quite high, especially the Australian salaries. The average web developer here earns $93,000 AUD?[1] That means that half of web developers are earning more than that. That's substantially higher than the national median household income of $63,000 AUD [2] [1]: As few have pointed out, this is correct if we assume the graphic meant average == median. But my point still stands: A reasonable chunk of p…

Average means little, actually. If a guy makes a million per year and another four make 100k, their average salary is 280k...

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Post by kjbekkelund »

madeofpalk wrote: post #5

These seem to be quite high, especially the Australian salaries. The average web developer here earns $93,000 AUD?[1] That means that half of web developers are earning more than that. That's substantially higher than the national median household income of $63,000 AUD [2] [1]: As few have pointed out, this is correct if we assume the graphic meant average == median. But my point still stands: A reasonable chunk of p…

Not necessarily. A median of $93,000 AUD would mean that half of web developers are earning more.

Re: Salaries for Developers and Designers across the world

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Post by freeman478 »

madeofpalk wrote: post #5

These seem to be quite high, especially the Australian salaries. The average web developer here earns $93,000 AUD?[1] That means that half of web developers are earning more than that. That's substantially higher than the national median household income of $63,000 AUD [2] [1]: As few have pointed out, this is correct if we assume the graphic meant average == median. But my point still stands: A reasonable chunk of p…

I guess the author should clarify if the reported number is the median salary (in which case your assertion that half the web dev are earning more than 93K AUD is correct) or if 93K is the average salary (which can be biased by a few very high earners).
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