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title: "The 18 highest paying developer roles in 2021"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-18-highest-paying-developer-roles-in-2021-fcnnkzujj
source_url: https://www.infoworld.com/article/3638775/the-18-highest-paying-developer-roles-in-2021.html
type: article
source: "InfoWorld"
published: 2021-11-02T10:12:00.287Z
updated: 2021-11-02T10:12:00.289Z
tags: ["general-programming"]
reading_time: 2
upvotes: 61
comments: 2
language: en
---

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# The 18 highest paying developer roles in 2021

**[InfoWorld](https://daily.dev/sources/infoworld)** · 2 min read · 61 upvotes · 2 comments

## Summary

The pandemic has sped up efforts to offer more digital services for employees and customers. The highest paying non-C-suite role in 2021 is the cloud architect. The rise of the site reliability engineer (SRE) has seen average salaries for that role spike, with candidates able to display these skills.

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@codevista** · 2 upvotes

> Hmm, I must be working on the wrong state of the US. Seem so high for web software engineer compare to my rate. I better go and work at those companies.

**@jessyco** · 2 upvotes

> Where I live (East coast Canada) these seem pretty high. Any local development shop absolutely will not pay even 50% of what is being stated here.
>
> Some larger companies will pay a bit higher than average for the local area but I think for the most part we're seen as cheaper than a tech shop in the USA and get the job done.
>
> It's interesting to think that as a developer we have an opportunity to make our boarders invisible in a sense and could get a decent pay while working on interesting projects.
>
> I'm wondering when articles like this come out, are they focused on pay data from the higher...

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