7. Germany
Annual average income: $63,800
With SAP and Siemens as one of the biggest software engineering companies not only in the country but in the world, the country has been able to pay its engineers a lot of money. And with recent news that Siemens just acquired US-based CD-adapco for almost $1 billion, this may pave the way for a brighter future for software engineers not only in the company but also in the country.