Latin America: Remote Software Engineer Salary Insights
Latin America places high value on specialized and data-driven roles.
Median Salary: $99,389–99,450 (46% lower than U.S. salaries)
Added Employment Cost: 9% (Chile) – 40% (Costa Rica)
Highest-Paid Roles: Data Scientist and DevOps Engineer
Latin America’s salaries are much lower than Canada, slightly higher than Europe.
Salaries in Latam are lower than Canada’s but generally higher than Europe’s, with the exception of Poland. The region has made huge investments in tech talent, which are reflected in relatively higher earning potential for tech talent.
Salaries are comparable across LatAm countries.
A premier nearshore tech talent region, Latin America’s salaries are comparable across countries, including Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, and Mexico.
Latin America’s highest-paid roles are data scientists and DevOps engineers.
Latin America, like many other regions, places a high value on specialized and data-driven roles. For example, in Mexico, Chile, and Colombia, data scientists earn the highest median salaries. In Costa Rica, DevOps engineers are the highest-paid.
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About Our Remote Engineer Salary Data
Terminal collected salary expectations for full-time employment from more than 260,000 candidates across 10 countries. Our data sources also include nearly 500 job postings and 1,000 employed engineers sourced through Terminal. This data was cleaned, normalized, and modeled to represent an accurate picture of salary expectations in each country.
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