The United States of America is the world’s top paying country, with an average yearly software engineer gross salary of $95,879.
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Paul Allen . He co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates, although we do not hear much of him when people talk of Microsoft. He is a programmer, and did some coding for Microsoft, earning him his shares, which made him a millionaire shortly afterward. Today, he is among the richest programmers in the world.
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