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One overall ranking that blends financial outcomes (savings, people supported, lifestyle) with livability: developer happiness and infrastructure. Only countries with enough of both kinds of data are scored, so the board reflects lived experience, not pay alone. Financial leads the blend (60/40), since every submission carries financial data while fewer rate happiness and infrastructure.
| Rank | Country | Overall Score | Financial | Livability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
#1 | Serbia | 65.7 / 100 | 69.4 36 submissions | 60.3 16 submissions |
#2 | Cyprus | 62 / 100 | 75.6 5 submissions | 41.5 5 submissions |
#3 | Poland | 58.2 / 100 | 47.8 106 submissions | 73.8 57 submissions |
#4 | Switzerland | 55 / 100 | 37.3 97 submissions | 81.7 42 submissions |
#5 | Croatia | 54.8 / 100 | 63.3 14 submissions | 42 7 submissions |
#6 | Czechia | 54.2 / 100 | 39.5 22 submissions | 76.4 12 submissions |
#7 | Bulgaria | 48.1 / 100 | 47.7 18 submissions | 48.6 6 submissions |
#8 | Estonia | 45 / 100 | 40.4 11 submissions | 51.8 8 submissions |
#9 | Romania | 40.8 / 100 | 42.4 40 submissions | 38.5 19 submissions |
#10 | Norway | 40.6 / 100 | 31.4 9 submissions | 54.5 5 submissions |
#11 | Lithuania | 40.4 / 100 | 35.8 25 submissions | 47.4 5 submissions |
#12 | Belgium | 38.9 / 100 | 29 20 submissions | 53.9 9 submissions |
#13 | Sweden | 32.1 / 100 | 23 24 submissions | 45.8 8 submissions |
#14 | Finland | 31 / 100 | 32.5 20 submissions | 28.8 8 submissions |
#15 | Austria | 30.7 / 100 | 10.5 27 submissions | 61 10 submissions |
#16 | Netherlands | 30.7 / 100 | 29 79 submissions | 33.1 31 submissions |
#17 | United Kingdom | 30 / 100 | 26.7 82 submissions | 34.8 27 submissions |
#18 | Ireland | 29.6 / 100 | 37.3 31 submissions | 18.1 15 submissions |
#19 | France | 29.5 / 100 | 29.6 52 submissions | 29.4 23 submissions |
#20 | Slovakia | 26 / 100 | 36.9 10 submissions | 9.7 5 submissions |
#21 | Germany | 25.6 / 100 | 27.5 216 submissions | 22.8 98 submissions |
#22 | Denmark | 24.4 / 100 | 24.6 50 submissions | 24.1 7 submissions |
#23 | Spain | 24.1 / 100 | 17 151 submissions | 34.7 98 submissions |
#24 | Italy | 15.4 / 100 | 16 138 submissions | 14.6 55 submissions |
#25 | Greece | 13.1 / 100 | 8.3 14 submissions | 20.2 6 submissions |
#26 | Portugal | 12.2 / 100 | 11.6 78 submissions | 13.2 25 submissions |
Not yet ranked: help complete the picture
These countries have plenty of submissions, but too few of them rate happiness & infrastructure to score livability fairly yet. A few more each puts them on the board.
How the Overall rank is calculated
Blends the Financial and Livability rankings into one 0-100 score, weighted 60% financial outcomes / 40% livability (happiness + tax & infrastructure). Financial leads because every submission carries financial data, while fewer rate happiness and infrastructure.
Overall = 100 × ( 0.60 × norm(financial) + 0.40 × norm(livability) ) norm(x) = (x − min) / (max − min) # over the same gated set of places
Three safeguards keep the blend honest
- Common scale: both pillars are min-max normalized over the same gated set of places, so 0-1 means the same thing on each axis (we don't average the per-tab composites, which are each scaled over a different population).
- Bayesian shrinkage: a place's happiness/tax score is pulled toward the population average in proportion to how little data backs it (adj = (n·mean + k·prior) / (n+k), k=10), so a country with two rated submissions can't swing the board.
- Sample gate: a place must clear at least 5 submissions, including 5 that rate happiness & infrastructure, to be ranked; those that don't appear in the separate "not yet ranked" list.
Cite this data
Euro Top Tech: Crowdsourced Software Engineer Salary & Savings Rankings (Europe). https://www.eurotoptech.com/data