Headline 2026 pay figures for every market PayMetric Labs covers, free to quote with a link, plus salary calculators you can embed on your own site.
Annual base salary in local currency. “Typical tech salary” is the median of the middle role when every role we benchmark in that market is ranked by pay. These are PayMetric Labs' own benchmarks, not official statistics, and they run well above all-worker national averages.
| Market | Typical tech salary | Take-home on it | Software engineer median |
|---|---|---|---|
| Australia | A$135,000 | A$101,280 | A$113,000 |
| Brazil | R$264,000 | R$193,708 | R$252,000 |
| Canada | CA$132,000 | CA$92,369 | CA$159,000 |
| Estonia | €50,000 | €39,444 | €52,000 |
| France | €64,000 | €43,526 | €62,000 |
| Germany | €86,000 | €51,192 | €98,000 |
| Hong Kong | HK$708,000 | HK$615,350 | n/a |
| India | ₹19,13,000 | ₹17,38,696 | ₹10,00,000 |
| Ireland | €75,000 | €52,591 | €65,000 |
| Japan | JP¥10,095,000 | JP¥7,335,145 | JP¥8,970,000 |
| Mexico | MX$836,000 | MX$660,367 | MX$752,000 |
| Netherlands | €74,000 | €51,028 | €72,000 |
| New Zealand | NZ$128,000 | NZ$89,163 | NZ$108,000 |
| Philippines | ₱972,000 | ₱790,725 | ₱852,000 |
| Poland | PLN 255,000 | PLN 158,383 | PLN 231,000 |
| Portugal | €47,000 | €31,441 | €47,000 |
| Qatar | QAR 336,000 | QAR 336,000 | n/a |
| Saudi Arabia | SAR 240,000 | SAR 240,000 | n/a |
| Singapore | SGD 108,000 | SGD 84,438 | n/a |
| Spain | €49,000 | €34,956 | €45,000 |
| Sweden | SEK 752,000 | SEK 548,523 | SEK 667,000 |
| Switzerland | CHF 138,000 | CHF 105,249 | CHF 161,000 |
| United Arab Emirates | AED 420,000 | AED 420,000 | n/a |
| United Kingdom | £69,000 | £50,577 | £84,000 |
| United States | US$162,000 | US$121,993 | US$182,000 |
| Vietnam | ₫564,600,000 | ₫479,385,300 | ₫498,600,000 |
Take-home is for a single employee with no extra deductions (US: federal tax and FICA only; Switzerland: Zurich). Software engineer medians are at each market's headline seniority level; see the linked page for the full ladder. “n/a” means that market has no general software engineer benchmark (only specialist developer roles). Methodology.
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These are PayMetric Labs' own benchmarks, built from job boards, recruitment firm reports, salary guides and selected public datasets for each market, then normalised by role, seniority and city. The methodology page explains the sources and confidence scoring. Figures are base salary only, excluding bonus, equity and pension.
It's the median salary of the middle role when every tech and digital role we benchmark in that market is ranked by its own median, each at its headline seniority level. It's a like-for-like way to compare markets, not an average of all workers, and it runs well above national all-worker averages.
With the same tax engines as our take-home calculators, for a single employee with no extra deductions. The US figure includes federal income tax and FICA but no state or city tax; Switzerland assumes Zurich; the Gulf markets have no personal income tax.
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