Salary Survey Extra: Average annual salary in 12 non-U.S. nations
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November 10, 2022
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Salary Survey Extra is a series of periodic dispatches that give added insight into the findings of our most recent Salary Survey. These posts contain previously unpublished Salary Survey data.

What does the IT salary picture look like outside the United States?

The Salary Survey, each year, tends to focus a lot of attention on conditions and circumstances in the United States. We can’t entirely escape from that, since certified IT professionals who live and work in the United States are by far the biggest contributors to the survey. Roughly 60 percent of all certified professionals to participate in the 2022 Salary Survey are U.S. residents.

There are, of course, a not inconsiderable number of certified professionals who weigh in from other countries. The problem is that most of them weigh in from separate and distinct countries. India (which accounted for 4.4 percent of all Salary Survey respondents) and Canada (which accounted for 3.9 percent) were second to the United States in terms of total representation.

That being the case, most readers can probably see why it’s hard to paint pictures, except in broad strokes, using our international survey data. Today, however, we’re going to use some of those broad strokes.

For the 2022 Salary Survey, the average annual salary of all U.S. respondents is $104,470. We can’t say how every country that produced survey responses compares. On the other hand, we do have some sizable samples other than just from Indian and Canadian certified professionals. So we took the 12 non-U.S. nations with the highest numbers of respondents, and averaged the annual salaries of all respondents from each country.

For the sake of consistency, and also because it simplifies work on the calculating and reporting end of things, we ask survey participants to report their salary in U.S. dollars. So we have two sets of numbers here: the average salary in U.S. dollars, and a converted figure based on the current rate of exchange (as of today, Nov. 10) with each of the countries represented.

Take a look:

COUNTRY Percentage of All Non-U.S. Survey Respondents from this Country Average Annual Salary (U.S.) Average Annual Salary (Converted)
India 11.1 percent $28,090 ₹2,275,093
Canada 9.8 percent $100,860 C$134,310
United Kingdom 9.4 percent $91,170 £121,410
Australia 3.7 percent $118,490 A$130,833
Japan 3.7 percent $84,030 ¥‎11,755,965
Singapore 3.7 percent $85,780 S$117,681
Netherlands 2.7 percent $90,070 €87,260
China 2.5 percent $73,860 ¥522,485
Brazil 2.4 percent $42,240 R$225,265
Albania 2 percent $48,360 L5,499,741
France 2 percent $77,068 €14,610
Italy 2 percent $58,790 €56,960

2021 Salary Data


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