In 2024, senior executives in the IT market reported the highest total annual compensation, with a median of over 127,388 thousand U.S. dollars. Developer advocates, managers, and developer experience engineers earned well over 100 thousand U.S. dollars annually. Site reliability engineers and cloud infrastructure engineers had median earnings of one thousand and 97 thousand U.S. dollars, respectively. At the lower end of the spectrum, academic researchers, front-end developers, and students earned less than 50 thousand U.S. dollars in total annual compensation.

As of September 2024, the average annual salary for software developers in Switzerland amounted to over 96 thousand U.S. dollars. By contrast, annual software developers' salaries in the Netherlands were approximately 51.2 thousand U.S. dollars.

Luxembourg had the highest average monthly salary of employees in the world in 2024 in terms of purchasing power parities (PPP), which takes the average cost of living in a country into account. Belgium followed in second, with the Netherlands in third.

This dataset provides values for WAGES reported in several countries. The data includes current values, previous releases, historical highs and record lows, release frequency, reported unit and currency.

This dataset provides values for WAGES reported in several countries. The data includes current values, previous releases, historical highs and record lows, release frequency, reported unit and currency.

This dataset provides values for WAGES IN MANUFACTURING reported in several countries. The data includes current values, previous releases, historical highs and record lows, release frequency, reported unit and currency.

This statistic shows the average salary of IT professionals worldwide in 2018, by industry. IT jobs in the aerospace/defense industry have the highest average salary, making about 111.5 thousand U.S. dollars per year in 2018.

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According to the survey, Erlang and Elixir are the programming languages that are associated with the highest salaries worldwide in 2024, with average of around 101 and 96 thousand U.S. dollars respectively.

Key information about United States Monthly Earnings

• United States Monthly Earnings stood at 4,901 USD in Feb 2025, compared with the previous figure of 4,887 USD in Jan 2025
• US Monthly Earnings data is updated monthly, available from Mar 2006 to Feb 2025, with an average number of 3,469 USD
• The data reached the an all-time high of 4,901 USD in Feb 2025 and a record low of 2,743 USD in Mar 2006

• In the latest reports, US Population reached 341 million people in Dec 2024
• Unemployment Rate of US increased to 4 % in Feb 2025
• The country's Labour Force Participation Rate remained the same rate at 62 % in Feb 2025

Latvia Average Wages and Salaries: Gross: AR: Gambling and Betting Activities data was reported at 1,184.340 EUR in Jun 2018. This records an increase from the previous number of 1,032.700 EUR for May 2018. Latvia Average Wages and Salaries: Gross: AR: Gambling and Betting Activities data is updated monthly, averaging 759.345 EUR from Jan 2008 (Median) to Jun 2018, with 126 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 1,184.340 EUR in Jun 2018 and a record low of 558.460 EUR in Feb 2010. Latvia Average Wages and Salaries: Gross: AR: Gambling and Betting Activities data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Latvia – Table LV.G018: Average Wages and Salaries: Statistical Classification of Economic Activities Revision 2.

Senior Executive was the highest-earning software development job worldwide as of 2024, with the average annual salary amounting to around 127 thousand U.S. dollars. Developer advocate and engineering manager were the other developer jobs with high salaries. Software developer A software developer, or more commonly known as a programmer or a coder, is a person who creates software by using computer languages. There are two main types of software developers: application developer – those who design computer or mobile applications – and system developer – those who focus on operating systems-level software and network distribution software. In 2021, there were around 25.6 million software developers worldwide. Programming languages A programming language is a formal language that instruct a computer or computing device to perform certain tasks. Languages that software developers use to write code are called “high-level languages”; these can be complied into a “low-level language” which can be understood by the computer hardware. Programming languages that are most used by developers include JavaScript, HTML/CSS, SQL, and Python. Clojure, F# and Elixir, on the other hand, are the languages associated with the highest salaries.

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Latvia Wages and Salaries: Net data was reported at 1,325.000 EUR in Dec 2024. This records an increase from the previous number of 1,225.000 EUR for Nov 2024. Latvia Wages and Salaries: Net data is updated monthly, averaging 486.000 EUR from Jan 1997 (Median) to Dec 2024, with 336 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 1,325.000 EUR in Dec 2024 and a record low of 113.000 EUR in Jan 1997. Latvia Wages and Salaries: Net data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Latvia – Table LV.G017: Average Wages and Salaries: by Sector.

Belgium Average Monthly Salary: Industry data was reported at 3,981.000 EUR in 2021. This records an increase from the previous number of 3,901.000 EUR for 2020. Belgium Average Monthly Salary: Industry data is updated yearly, averaging 3,110.000 EUR from Sep 1999 (Median) to 2021, with 23 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 3,981.000 EUR in 2021 and a record low of 2,238.000 EUR in 1999. Belgium Average Monthly Salary: Industry data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Directorate-General Statistics - Statistics Belgium. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Belgium – Table BE.G036: Average Monthly Salary.

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Average Monthly Nominal Wages: CF: Kursk Region data was reported at 64,412.800 RUB in 2024. This records an increase from the previous number of 53,623.800 RUB for 2023. Average Monthly Nominal Wages: CF: Kursk Region data is updated yearly, averaging 11,437.400 RUB from Dec 1992 (Median) to 2024, with 33 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 64,412.800 RUB in 2024 and a record low of 4.700 RUB in 1992. Average Monthly Nominal Wages: CF: Kursk Region data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Federal State Statistics Service. The data is categorized under Russia Premium Database’s Demographic and Labour Market – Table RU.GC008: Average Monthly Wages: by Region.

This dataset provides values for WAGES reported in several countries. The data includes current values, previous releases, historical highs and record lows, release frequency, reported unit and currency.