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by cmdshiftf4 2324 days ago
>The US is the sole exception where developer salaries are priced close to doctor salaries.

This is incorrect. Good software developers in Poland, and to some extent the Ukraine, are enjoying salaries comparable with doctors there, if not more.

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Same in Sweden, good developers definitely make more than doctors, especially if we consider total compensation.
How much would a good developer make? I'm looking to move to Sweden from Australia, and from what I saw there was a lot of equality in wages/ compression towards a mean for most fields.

Like in Norway, it seemed like SEs made 1.5-2x what a retail worker would make. Makes for a happier society maybe, but I do want to live a fairly lavish life if possible, and Australia definitely allows for that!