Developer Salary Benchmark (Region × Stack)
Fully-loaded annual cost for junior, mid, senior and staff engineers across the major regions and stacks.
Pick a region and a stack. We return a planning band for junior, mid, senior and staff engineers in fully-loaded annual USD.
| Seniority | Base salary (USD/yr) | Fully-loaded (USD/yr) | Hourly (fully-loaded) |
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"Fully-loaded" includes employer taxes, benefits, equipment and overhead at ~1.4× base (lower in markets without payroll-tax inflation). Hourly is loaded ÷ 2,080.
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Talk to our engineers →"Fully loaded" includes
Base + employer taxes + benefits + equipment + overhead. Usually ~1.3–1.5× base salary in the US/EU; lower in markets without payroll-tax inflation.
Stack premium
Stack adjusts the band: ML and SRE pay above average; mobile and Python pay slightly above the regional baseline; PHP and front-end-only pay slightly below. The deltas are smaller than HN claims.
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