Salary for Norwegian developers in 9th place – see where in Europe you earn the most
Do you think Norwegian developers earn well? Not according to a fresh examination from Levels.fyi, which has collected statistics on the salaries of more than 150,000 developers worldwide.
According to the study, developers in Oslo have a median salary of 80,000 dollars a year, just under 800,000 kroner, and end up on a 9th place among the European countries.
In comparison, developers in Copenhagen, Denmark earn 112,000 dollars (shared 3rd place with Dublin, Ireland). That is 40 percent more than in Norway:
The very best paid in Europe are the developers in Zurich, Switzerland with 178,000 dollars, while London developers come in 2nd place with 116,000 dollars.
You have to cross the pond for the top salaries
Although you can make good money as a developer in Europe, our developer salaries are almost pitiful compared to what developers on the US west coast are paid:
- In the San Francisco Bay Area, which includes what we like to call “Silicon Valley”, the median for the developers is a whopping 234,000 dollars, 2.3 million Norwegian kroner.
- Seattle is not far behind, with $213,000. Perhaps not surprising, considering that IT giants such as Microsoft and Amazon have their headquarters in this very city.
The statistics show that in some cases individual companies can pay very well for the best people. A “Senior Engineer” at Netflix in California, for example, has a salary of 550,000 dollars (5.5 million kroner).
The wage freeze in Norway
We must, of course, take the caveat that the data base for the smallest countries, such as Norway, was previously small – and that there may be biases due to the fact that the survey is based on users reporting their salaries themselves.
Nevertheless, the salary level for Oslo agrees quite well kode24’s own salary survey from 2022 (average experience and number of respondents in parents):
- Oslo: NOK 800,033 (8 years of experience, 595 answers)
- Cove: NOK 790,678 (11 years of experience, 82 answers)
- Rogaland: NOK 787,198 (9 years of experience, 65 answers)
- Westland: NOK 746,647 (8 years of experience, 113 answers)
- Agder: NOK 745,519 (9 years of experience, 38 answers)
- Inland: NOK 742,260 (11 years of experience, 30 answers)
- Trøndelag: NOK 734,334 (9 years of experience, 131 answers)
- Troms and Finnmark: NOK 716,318 (12 years of experience, 22 answers)
- Vestfold and Telemark: NOK 699,377 (9 years of experience, 69 answers)
- Møre and Romsdal: NOK 694,660 (8 years of experience, 30 answers)
- Nordland: NOK 616,667 (7 years of experience, 24 answers)