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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 jug6ernaut »

Dirlewanger wrote: post #29

Ah, 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).

Its not as much standard of living, but cost of living. Which varies not only between country, but even state. Average for some countries makes sense, but for countries like US the average is pretty meaningless. The average difference in income for two comparable developers between say Texas and California is going to be huge.

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Post by canadiancreed »

Canada's salary points seem really low....or there's a lot of "you must know everything and we'll pay you minimum wage" jobs that they're scooping from the Canadian Job Bank. From that list, I want to be heading to either Australia or the US.

Also for PHP dev average, where do you get 75k for junior, and 100k+ or senior? Sure isn't Canada. 75k here is senior level salary, and that's in Toronto. I've only ever seen one PHP job in Canada that paid 100k, and that was an architect position, 10 years experience, and needed to have experience with incredibly large datasets.

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Post by jorgeleo »

This infographic has such slanted view of the development world. There is web developers and designers, SENIOR web developers and designers... and then everybody else.

As if the only purpose of software development were html pages.

As important as HTML and mobile development with cute stock pictures and animated charts have become the boom, this type of development does not represent 20% of the software development world.

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Post by morley »

canadiancreed wrote: post #32

Canada's salary points seem really low....or there's a lot of "you must know everything and we'll pay you minimum wage" jobs that they're scooping from the Canadian Job Bank. From that list, I want to be heading to either Australia or the US. Also for PHP dev average, where do you get 75k for junior, and 100k+ or senior? Sure isn't Canada. 75k here is senior level salary, and that's in Toronto. I've only ever seen on…

I'd assume that the $100k jobs are filled already. Estimating the average salary from job listings is like estimating the economy from economic forecasts.

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Post by cowls »

samwillis wrote: post #21

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.

True in London, I imagine this changes dramatically outside of London though.

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Post by martswite »

samwillis wrote: post #21

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.

Until recently my salary working as a PHP developer was £22K in the NE of England. As a senior dev £30k.

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Post by pivnicek »

talloaktrees wrote: post #15

I wonder why software developers in Japan make so little (35k), but web developers there make a lot (85k)?

Because these numbers are drawn out of a rabbit's arse. No other way to explain it. Doesn't help that they don't give a description of the categories, or methodology

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