Countries Where Software Engineers Make The Most Money

By siliconindia  |   Wednesday, 02 July 2014, 02:23 IST
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BANGALORE: In recent years, the job market has increasingly rewarded technical professions like math and science for offering a pleasant work environment, good salary and healthy job security. However, in the recent past, growth of information technology has given rise to many careers and computer software engineering is one among them where individuals make the most money worldwide. Based on data from PayScale, Bloomberg came up with a list of countries where software engineers are paid the highest and you will also be surprised to know that software engineer in Pakistan makes the most money compared to other professions in the country.



Pakistan
Rank: 1
Ratio of median software engineer pay to average income: 5.56
Median annual pay for software engineers: $7,200
Average annual income: $1,296
Due to the explosive impact of computers and the rise in the growth of information technology, computers in the daily life of people has reportedly gone up and so as the same for Pakistani software engineering employees who are getting high salary packages for experienced as well as fresh software engineers.
The salary of these individuals varies from designation depending on the abilities of employees experience and technical talent. Software engineers in Pakistan are also getting good amount from freelancing by sitting at home, therefore, the field is growing as well as giving people high pay no doubt.
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