MEDELLÍN / SALARY
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Gross income

Net (after tax)

3881.33 COP = 1 USD

162,418,135 COP

$41,846 USD

Bogotá

171,127,839 COP

104,795,910 COP

$27,000 USD

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Average Salary / Medellín

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Average salary in Medellín is 162,418,135 COP per year. The most typical earning is 104,795,910 COP. All data are based on 40 salary surveys. Salaries are different between men and women. Men receive an average salary of 170,778,520 COP. Women receive a salary of 69,863,940 COP.

The most paid careers are Logistics, Road, Railway with average income 758,800,015 COP and Health Care & Medical with income 545,326,865 COP.

Based on education, the highest salaries receive people with Doctorate Degree with salary of 243,747,524 COP. The second most paid education level is Some College with salary of 234,044,199 COP.

Different experiences affect earning as well. People with 20+ Years of experience receive salary of 282,172,691 COP. Employees with 0-1 Year of experience receive 217,742,613 COP.

Levels / Medellín (Gross COP)

Salary Levels (COP) per Year	Surveys	[%]
11,644,000 COP - 19,402,799 COP	0	n/a
19,406,700 COP - 38,809,399 COP	1	100% 2.5%
38,813,300 COP - 58,216,099 COP	4	97.5% 10%
58,220,000 COP - 77,622,699 COP	4	87.5% 10%
77,626,600 COP - 97,029,399 COP	6	77.5% 15%
THE MOST TYPICAL SALARY
97,033,300 COP - 116,435,999 COP	7	62.5% 17.5%
116,439,900 COP - 135,842,699 COP	3	45% 7.5%
135,846,600 COP - 155,249,299 COP	2	37.5% 5%
155,253,200 COP - 174,655,999 COP	3	32.5% 7.5%
174,659,900 COP - 194,062,599 COP	1	25% 2.5%
194,066,500 COP - 213,469,299 COP	1	22.5% 2.5%
213,473,200 COP - 232,875,899 COP	0	n/a
232,879,800 COP - 252,282,599 COP	0	n/a
252,286,500 COP - 271,689,199 COP	1	20% 2.5%
271,693,100 COP - 291,095,899 COP	0	n/a
291,099,800 COP - 310,502,499 COP	0	n/a
310,506,400 COP - 329,909,199 COP	4	17.5% 10%
329,913,100 COP - 349,315,799 COP	0	n/a
349,319,700 COP - 368,722,499 COP	0	n/a
368,726,400 COP - 388,129,099 COP	0	n/a
388,133,000 COP - 407,535,799 COP	1	7.5% 2.5%
407,539,700 COP - 426,942,399 COP	0	n/a
426,946,300 COP - 446,349,099 COP	0	n/a
446,353,000 COP - 465,755,699 COP	0	n/a
465,759,600 COP - 485,162,399 COP	0	n/a
485,166,300 COP - 504,568,999 COP	0	n/a
504,572,900 COP - 523,975,699 COP	0	n/a
523,979,600 COP - 543,382,299 COP	0	n/a
543,386,200 COP - 562,788,999 COP	1	5% 2.5%
562,792,900 COP - 582,195,599 COP	0	n/a
HIGH SALARIES
582,199,500 COP - 621,008,899 COP	0	n/a
621,012,800 COP - 659,822,199 COP	0	n/a
659,826,100 COP - 698,635,499 COP	0	n/a
698,639,400 COP - 737,448,799 COP	0	n/a
737,452,700 COP - 776,262,099 COP	1	2.5% 2.5%
776,266,000 COP - 815,075,399 COP	0	n/a
815,079,300 COP - 853,888,699 COP	0	n/a
853,892,600 COP - 892,701,999 COP	0	n/a
892,705,900 COP - 931,515,299 COP	0	n/a
931,519,200 COP - 970,328,599 COP	0	n/a
970,332,500 COP - 1,358,465,499 COP	0	n/a

Gender / Medellín (Gross COP)

#		Surveys		AVERAGE SALARY / YEAR
1	Men	36	170,778,520 COP
2	Women	3	69,863,940 COP

Education / Medellín (Gross COP)

#		Surveys
1	Doctorate Degree	5	243,747,524 COP
2	Some College	2	234,044,199 COP
3	Bachelors Degree	18	152,148,136 COP
4	Masters Degree	15	138,175,348 COP

Experience / Medellín (Gross COP)

#		Surveys
1	20+ Years	5	282,172,691 COP
2	0-1 Year	3	217,742,613 COP
3	16-20 Years	3	205,322,357 COP
4	12-16 Years	4	204,934,224 COP
5	8-12 Years	5	144,773,609 COP
6	1-2 Years	5	143,221,077 COP
7	4-8 Years	9	104,019,644 COP
8	2-4 Years	6	103,243,378 COP

Age / Medellín (Gross COP)

#		Surveys
1	66-70	1	758,800,015 COP
2	36-40	7	212,308,751 COP
3	21-25	8	173,495,451 COP
4	41-45	4	146,714,274 COP
5	n/a	1	145,938,008 COP
6	46-50	5	131,188,954 COP
7	26-30	8	120,321,230 COP
8	31-35	6	85,389,260 COP

Work Type / Medellín (Gross COP)

#		Surveys
1	Self Employed	2	412,585,379 COP
2	Permanent	30	153,700,668 COP
3	Contract	8	133,129,619 COP

Career Groups / Medellín (Gross COP)

#		Surveys
1	Logistics, Road, Railway	1	758,800,015 COP
2	Health Care & Medical	1	545,326,865 COP
3	Marketing, Sales, Purchase	2	313,223,331 COP
4	Management & Business	4	212,308,751 COP
5	Accounting & Administration	3	175,047,983 COP
6	Salesmen & Saleswomen	1	164,568,392 COP
7	IT & Programming	7	153,312,535 COP
8	Arts, Culture, Performance	1	145,938,008 COP
9	Hotels & Tourism	2	121,097,496 COP
10	Engineers & Technicians	9	102,078,979 COP
11	IT & Programming II	1	98,585,782 COP
12	Engineers & Technicians III	1	85,389,260 COP
13	Education & University	4	70,252,073 COP
14	Finance & Banking	2	67,147,009 COP
15	Health Care & Medical II	1	49,292,891 COP

Careers / Medellín (Gross COP)

#		Surveys
1	Logistics	1	758,800,015 COP
2	Doctor	1	545,326,865 COP
3	Manager	1	401,717,655 COP
4	General Manager	1	325,643,587 COP
5	Sales Manager	2	313,223,331 COP
6	Audit Manager	2	212,696,884 COP
7	Robots Programmer	1	205,710,490 COP
8	Database Administrator	1	189,797,037 COP
9	IT Manager	2	179,317,446 COP
10	Salesmen or Saleswomen	1	164,568,392 COP
11	Hotel Manager	1	156,805,732 COP
12	Music Instrument Teacher	1	145,938,008 COP
13	Electrical Engineer	1	130,800,821 COP
14	Research Engineer	2	119,933,097 COP
15	Web Administrator	1	118,768,698 COP
16	.NET Developer	1	102,078,979 COP
17	Bookkeeper	1	99,750,181 COP
18	Engineer	4	99,362,048 COP
19	Python Developer	1	98,973,915 COP
20	Other IT Career	1	98,585,782 COP
21	Languages Teacher	1	87,329,925 COP
22	University Professor Assistant	1	87,329,925 COP
23	Hydraulic and Pneumatic Engineer	1	85,389,260 COP
24	Tourism and Travel	1	85,001,127 COP
25	Business Development Manager	1	81,896,063 COP
26	Engineering Manager	2	74,909,669 COP
27	Education Coordinator	1	74,909,669 COP
28	Financial Analyst	1	68,699,541 COP
29	Economist	1	65,982,610 COP
30	Other Medical Career	1	49,292,891 COP
31	Business Manager	1	39,977,699 COP
32	Lecturer	1	30,274,374 COP

People's individual salary examples (surveys)

Ingeniero Admisnitrador

Posted 16 September 2021
Key knowledge and tasks

"Power BI, Modelling, forecasting, budgeting."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Medellín	Bachelors Degree	0-1 Year	Advanced	39,962,200 COP

Industrial Engineer

Posted 24 August 2021
Key knowledge and tasks

"Projects."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Medellín	Bachelors Degree	2-4 Years	Advanced	55,945,500 COP

Analyst

Posted 26 June 2021

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Medellín	Bachelors Degree	1-2 Years	Intermediate	65,982,600 COP

Electrical Engineer

Posted 17 August 2020
Key knowledge and tasks

"Professional with more than four years of experience including participation in the engineering 
p
r
ocess of HVDC converter stations and SVC reactive power compensations. Addit
ionally, 
experience in modeling
power system components for real time simulation 
in Opal
-
RT 
equipment
, 
hardware in the loop testing of protection schemes, synchrophasor measurement and dynamic 
electrical studies. 
Familiarity with direct customer interactions, both in Spanish and English."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Medellín	Bachelors Degree	2-4 Years	n/a	130,890,100 COP

Audit Manager

Posted 24 May 2020
Key knowledge and tasks

"COSO, COBIT, SOX."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Medellín	Bachelors Degree	12-16 Years	n/a	168,779,600 COP

Customer Support Manager

Posted 08 March 2020
Key knowledge and tasks

"Customer support manager of the L2 team."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Medellín	Bachelors Degree	1-2 Years	n/a	401,857,400 COP

Travel Specialist

Posted 14 January 2020
Key knowledge and tasks

"Create new trips and improve existing trips
Sell these trips to our German-speaking customers
Explain and suggest information that the customer may need before and after the trip
Professionally present our travel products 
Carry out research in Ecuador and Colombia to create trips that impress our clients (and even our competition)
Negotiate contracts with our local partners
Coordinate reservations with our flight department and our local service providers."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Medellín	Bachelors Degree	8-12 Years	n/a	85,028,300 COP

Data Scientist

Posted 11 January 2020
Key knowledge and tasks

"Machine learning, Python, Data Modeling."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Medellín	Bachelors Degree	2-4 Years	n/a	114,813,600 COP

. Net Developer

Posted 24 August 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

". Net Software Development."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Medellín	Bachelors Degree	4-8 Years	n/a	101,966,400 COP

Technical Advisory Coordinator

Posted 23 August 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Technical advisory for the use of cement and concrete. Knowledge transfer. Review specifications, help the clients with their needs."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Medellín	Masters Degree	8-12 Years	n/a	143,706,200 COP

Professor

Posted 20 August 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Teaching languages."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Medellín	Masters Degree	20+ Years	n/a	87,473,500 COP

Civil Engineer

Posted 27 July 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"I work in construction area."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Medellín	Bachelors Degree	1-2 Years	n/a	99,967,500 COP

Territory Manager

Posted 25 June 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"P&L, responsibility over 15 counties,."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Medellín	Masters Degree	12-16 Years	n/a	314,903,900 COP

Research Engineering Autonomous Vehicles

Posted 12 June 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"AUV, ROV, autonomous."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Medellín	Doctorate Degree	4-8 Years	n/a	124,959,400 COP

Middleware Administrator

Posted 04 June 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Application Server Administrator."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Medellín	Masters Degree	4-8 Years	n/a	118,710,500 COP

General Manager

Posted 02 April 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Manage hotel and food outlets."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Medellín	Some College	20+ Years	n/a	156,949,300 COP

Sociologist

Posted 25 March 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Prepare and evaluate courses for undergraduated and posgraduated students. Also participate in research projects."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Medellín	Doctorate Degree	4-8 Years	n/a	87,473,500 COP

Business Development And Placement Manager

Posted 31 January 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Build new business leads and relationships and oversee internship placement."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Medellín	Masters Degree	4-8 Years	n/a	74,975,700 COP

Digital Transformation

Posted 21 January 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Apply Machine Learning and IA methodlogies in bussiness cases."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Medellín	Masters Degree	1-2 Years	n/a	98,717,700 COP

Industrial Engineers

Posted 02 January 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"• Recognize and optimize the human, physical, technical and operational resources of a whole productive process and / or services. 
• Manage a research project in accordance with the policies of the institution or the company. 
• Manage the different components of a system according to the capacity of production and / or service, the requirements of customers, suppliers and current legislation. 
• Act with ethical values and self-study capacity."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Medellín	Masters Degree	20+ Years	n/a	97,099,200 COP

Part-time Lecturer

Posted 20 December 2018
Key knowledge and tasks

"Lecturing of physics."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Medellín	Masters Degree	2-4 Years	n/a	30,460,700 COP

Product Design Engineer

Posted 21 November 2018
Key knowledge and tasks

"Product design."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Medellín	Masters Degree	4-8 Years	n/a	79,866,100 COP

Business Development Executive

Posted 08 November 2018
Key knowledge and tasks

"BDE desde medellin,."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Medellín	Bachelors Degree	4-8 Years	n/a	164,646,000 COP

Financial Analyst

Posted 24 July 2018
Key knowledge and tasks

"Analyse the market conditions within columbia."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Medellín	Bachelors Degree	0-1 Year	n/a	68,602,500 COP

Data Manager

Posted 23 July 2018
Key knowledge and tasks

"Data and system manager for clinical trials."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Medellín	Doctorate Degree	16-20 Years	n/a	315,575,400 COP

Robots Programmer

Posted 16 July 2018
Key knowledge and tasks

"RPA developper/ automation."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Medellín	Masters Degree	2-4 Years	n/a	205,811,400 COP

Python Developer

Posted 24 January 2018
Key knowledge and tasks

"Backend developer for a fintech company."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Medellín	Bachelors Degree	4-8 Years	n/a	98,787,600 COP

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