There is something off with these numbers, especially the UK figures. $43000 average for a software developer would be about £26500, thats quite low. I would expect it to be in the mid £30Ks.
Salaries for Developers and Designers across the world
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#22What's special about swiss graphic designers?
Its not their "designers", it's the fact that they really value design in Swaziland.
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#23There is something off with these numbers, especially the UK figures. $43000 average for a software developer would be about £26500, thats quite low. I would expect it to be in the mid £30Ks.
Indeed. Graduates aren't even far off starting on around £25k+ in the UK[1]. Somebody with a good few years experience can quite easily get almost double that.
[1] - http://targetjobs.co.uk/career-sectors/it-and-technology/286...
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#24The infographics are dismal. The bars in 'Average Salary by Specialty' indicate that Python developers make twice what Javascript devs earn, while in reality it is around 10%. When you look at Java, an approximate 10% difference between Junior and Midlevel results in much more similar bar heights.
What's missing is where the numbers are coming from, how many replied and whether it is in any way representative.
The numbers for Germany are very odd. 24k for a designer is pretty close to the poverty line, I believe. Is that before or after tax? I guess it suffers from a lack of participation from many non-anglosaxon countries, so I would not use any of these numbers in actual interviews.
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#25There is something off with these numbers, especially the UK figures. $43000 average for a software developer would be about £26500, thats quite low. I would expect it to be in the mid £30Ks.
If you're living and working in London that's the kind of salary you'd be looking at, simply because the rental prices around here are so high. Outside London I can see it being that much lower. £26,500 is about average wage in the UK, and salaries are not keeping up with inflation and cost of living increases over the last 10 years in all professions.
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#26There is something off with these numbers, especially the UK figures. $43000 average for a software developer would be about £26500, thats quite low. I would expect it to be in the mid £30Ks.
Yeah, these numbers are definitely off for Japan. Developers get paid shit in Japan (which is probably a big part of why most Japanese software/websites blow).
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#27There is something off with these numbers, especially the UK figures. $43000 average for a software developer would be about £26500, thats quite low. I would expect it to be in the mid £30Ks.
Indeed. Graduates aren't even far off starting on around £25k+ in the UK[1]. Somebody with a good few years experience can quite easily get almost double that. [1] - http://targetjobs.co.uk/career-sectors/it-and-technology/286...
Where I live grad salaries are 18 - 22k
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#28There is something off with these numbers, especially the UK figures. $43000 average for a software developer would be about £26500, thats quite low. I would expect it to be in the mid £30Ks.
Actually I agree with that average. We've just hired 4 developers to work for us. We're based in Zone 2 London and we're paying them on average £28 000 (they all have 2 years or more in commercial experience)
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#29Ah, another inaccurate salary comparison chart that doesn't take into account standard of living and how that differs vastly from country to country (and regions within the countries).
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#30There is something off with these numbers, especially the UK figures. $43000 average for a software developer would be about £26500, thats quite low. I would expect it to be in the mid £30Ks.
Actually I agree with that average. We've just hired 4 developers to work for us. We're based in Zone 2 London and we're paying them on average £28 000 (they all have 2 years or more in commercial experience)
£28k approx for someone with 2 years of experience in London is reasonably average.
It's entirely dependant on the language involved though. Ruby/Python/iOS developers for example, earn £45k on average.