Interesting. Because in Latvia you can get best of the breed software developers for only 66 000 USD a year. And that includes all possible and impossible taxes! (without taxes it's about 32 000 USD a year)
By the way, I'm a freelancer - feel free to drop me a line at spiritus.emortus@gmail.com.
Sorry for the spammy note. :)
In Malawi, the average salaries of good developers is 14,400 USD (22% of that of Latvia). Lord have mercy!
And in Romania, I'd guess it would be no more than half of that :)