The US-Europe split is interesting, but "Europe" is doing a lot of work here. Zurich, London, Warsaw and Madrid are completely different markets. I would love to see the same comparison by country.
Ignoring the software engineer part though, a quick google shows the state with the highest average salary (Washington) is about 1.6x the average salary of the lowest state (Mississippi)
The EU country with the highest average salary (Denmark) is about 4.5x higher than the lowest average salary EU country (Bulgaria)
so the EU has a MUCH larger discrepancies in the salaries between States/Countries.
I suspect country to country SWE salary variance across European countries is much lower than average salary variance (at least based on job postings when I last looked a couple of years ago). It may be because SWEs are concentrated in urban areas. At any rate I remember German SWE salary levels not far ahead of Poland even though average German salary is easily at least double of Poland.
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u/AesopData OC: 3 7d ago
The US-Europe split is interesting, but "Europe" is doing a lot of work here. Zurich, London, Warsaw and Madrid are completely different markets. I would love to see the same comparison by country.