That's an interesting picture. I took those numbers and compared them to Wikipedia's purchasing-power adjusted average wage figures for 2017 at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_average_w.... Here are the results sorted by ratio of average developer salary to average salary in each country. You get the best bang for your buck in .il and .fr doesn't (quite) get the wooden spoon.
Country Ratio dev:avg
Netherlands 0.851031639465174
France 0.891326705519369
Canada 0.944941413632355
Finland 1.00083791080905
Australia 1.01779098644302
Germany 1.05075128717033
New Zealand 1.07384561596284
UK 1.18906064209275
Sweden 1.29738400207581
Norway 1.3082871202062
Switzerland 1.31657113498065
Denmark 1.34069094159251
USA 1.48617853958189
Israel 1.85359454758035
I'd be interested to see the Canada numbers broken down more locally. I'm quite sure that my current home city of Montreal would look a lot healthier than Vancouver, for example.
What does this table say? I'm not convinced you can just divide real salaries by PP adjusted numbers and get a meaningful result of the kind you are claiming. Isn't this table just sorted by the PP adjustment factor, i.e. an inverse ranking of the highest PP?
"Isn't this table just sorted by the PP adjustment factor"
No, it isn't, but I do think you're right in that I should have used the nominal wages. I found the original article and that does not appear to be purchasing-power adjusted:
Using the nominal wages gives the below, with France now in the middle of the list:
Country Ratio dev:avg
Australia 0.81
Netherlands 0.85
Canada 0.90
New Zealand 0.92
Finland 0.92
France 0.92
Switzerland 0.93
Norway 1.02
Denmark 1.05
Germany 1.12
UK 1.15
Sweden 1.15
USA 1.49
Israel 1.53
Whether or not this is a "meaningful result" is still debatable but I'd like to think it gives us something approaching a "developer appreciation metric".
