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The next step would be cross reference this with GDP per capita.

Or the Big Mac Index! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Mac_Index

I was just thinking that along with other stats. For example:

* industry volume vs need (supply/demand) * average education requirements * comparison to other high paying jobs in that same country (lawyers/doctors in the US) * programming language usage (Ruby, PHP, Javascript, Java whatever else).

and idk. Just to get a good idea of how each country stands.

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