For the opposite cases, where the average pay for SE's is lower than the countries average, what's going on there I wonder? For countries with an oil based economy I guess this makes some sense to me, but Norway, Romania, etc? What's happening there?<p>Norway actually caught my attention first as it's an outlier for the average income. Almost $100k per year? I had no idea!
So a software engineer in Romania makes less than the average Romanian. Yeah, right.<p>And the median income for a software engineer in Bulgaria is $25K. I am from Bulgaria, and I can tell you that is not the case. This is speculating, but I think it's more like $15K.