Survey highlights US is top-paying country for software engineers

New report has revealed the discrepancy in wages of engineers around the world, highlighting that US developers earn much more than their British peers

Gamified programming outfit Codingame conducted the survey using its community of two million developers (along with tech recruiters) according to which, the US remained the top-paying country for software engineers, with an average annual salary of $95,879.

According to the report more than 40 per cent of developers working in the US earn over $100k a year and 5 per cent earn than $200k annually.

A close second in terms of remuneration was Switzerland, with a $90,462 average salary, Canada was at $71,193, while UK came in fourth, with an average salary of $68,664.

Moreover, according to the data Germany came in at sixth place with $61,390. France was down at ninth with $47,617. At tenth place came Spain with an average salary of $39,459 for software engineers.

However, software engineers in India, Morocco, and Tunisia were at the bottom of the table, with averages of $19,553, $18,318, and $16,796 respectively.