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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 it rests on far more submissions.
| Rank | Country | Overall Score | Financial | Livability | Ratings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
#1 | Switzerland | 71.7 / 100 | 61.5 | 87.1 | 34 |
#2 | Poland | 67.5 / 100 | 60.6 | 77.8 | 46 |
#3 | Serbia | 65.1 / 100 | 71.3 | 55.9 | 11 |
#4 | Croatia | 58.7 / 100 | 67.1 | 46.2 | 6 |
#5 | Romania | 52.5 / 100 | 57.9 | 44.5 | 18 |
#6 | Lithuania | 52.3 / 100 | 50.5 | 54.9 | 5 |
#7 | Belgium | 52.2 / 100 | 42.5 | 66.8 | 7 |
#8 | Bulgaria | 50.9 / 100 | 52.9 | 47.8 | 5 |
#9 | Czech Republic | 49.5 / 100 | 39.2 | 64.8 | 6 |
#10 | Norway | 48 / 100 | 39.6 | 60.6 | 5 |
#11 | Netherlands | 44.9 / 100 | 41.8 | 49.6 | 25 |
#12 | United Kingdom | 44.5 / 100 | 44.4 | 44.6 | 20 |
#13 | Finland | 41.5 / 100 | 48 | 31.7 | 8 |
#14 | Ireland | 38.3 / 100 | 48.1 | 23.5 | 12 |
#15 | Estonia | 36.9 / 100 | 26.4 | 52.6 | 5 |
#16 | Sweden | 36.7 / 100 | 27.3 | 50.9 | 8 |
#17 | Austria | 35.9 / 100 | 15.7 | 66.1 | 9 |
#18 | France | 33.7 / 100 | 39.6 | 24.9 | 18 |
#19 | Slovakia | 33.4 / 100 | 46.7 | 13.5 | 5 |
#20 | Germany | 30.6 / 100 | 33.6 | 26 | 79 |
#21 | Denmark | 28.7 / 100 | 35.5 | 18.4 | 6 |
#22 | Spain | 22.9 / 100 | 19.4 | 28.1 | 83 |
#23 | Italy | 21 / 100 | 19.3 | 23.6 | 38 |
#24 | Portugal | 8.6 / 100 | 11.1 | 4.8 | 17 |
Not yet ranked: help complete the picture
These countries have plenty of salary data but not enough happiness & infrastructure ratings to score fairly yet. A few more ratings 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 it rests on far more submissions.
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 ratings can't swing the board.
- Sample gate: a place must clear at least 5 submissions and 5 happiness ratings 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