IT & PROGRAMMING / SALARY
COSTA RICA

SALARY SURVEYS

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521.31 CRC = 1 USD

23,809,263 CRC

$45,672 USD

San José

24,348,297 CRC

14,075,365 CRC

$27,000 USD

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Average Salary / IT & Programming / Costa Rica

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Average salary for IT & Programming / Costa Rica is 23,809,263 CRC per year. The most typical earning is 14,075,365 CRC. All data are based on 45 salary surveys. Salaries are different between men and women. Men receive an average salary of 24,501,562 CRC. Women receive a salary of 20,539,607 CRC.

Based on education, the highest salaries receive people with Bachelors Degree with salary of 24,762,217 CRC. The second most paid education level is Masters Degree with salary of 23,302,549 CRC.

Different experiences affect earning as well. People with 20+ Years of experience receive salary of 34,875,628 CRC. Employees with 12-16 Years of experience receive 28,880,565 CRC.

Levels / IT & Programming / Costa Rica (Gross CRC)

Salary Levels (CRC) per Year	Surveys	[%]
1,563,900 CRC - 2,605,999 CRC	0	n/a
2,606,500 CRC - 5,212,599 CRC	0	n/a
5,213,100 CRC - 7,819,099 CRC	1	100% 2.22%
7,819,600 CRC - 10,425,699 CRC	6	97.78% 13.33%
10,426,200 CRC - 13,032,199 CRC	3	84.44% 6.67%
THE MOST TYPICAL SALARY
13,032,700 CRC - 15,638,799 CRC	7	77.78% 15.56%
15,639,300 CRC - 18,245,299 CRC	1	62.22% 2.22%
18,245,800 CRC - 20,851,899 CRC	3	60% 6.67%
20,852,400 CRC - 23,458,399 CRC	6	53.33% 13.33%
23,458,900 CRC - 26,064,999 CRC	4	40% 8.89%
26,065,500 CRC - 28,671,499 CRC	3	31.11% 6.67%
28,672,000 CRC - 31,278,099 CRC	4	24.44% 8.89%
31,278,600 CRC - 33,884,599 CRC	2	15.56% 4.44%
33,885,100 CRC - 36,491,199 CRC	3	11.11% 6.67%
36,491,700 CRC - 39,097,699 CRC	0	n/a
39,098,200 CRC - 41,704,299 CRC	0	n/a
41,704,800 CRC - 44,310,799 CRC	0	n/a
44,311,300 CRC - 46,917,399 CRC	0	n/a
46,917,900 CRC - 49,523,899 CRC	0	n/a
49,524,400 CRC - 52,130,499 CRC	0	n/a
52,131,000 CRC - 54,736,999 CRC	0	n/a
54,737,500 CRC - 57,343,599 CRC	0	n/a
57,344,100 CRC - 59,950,099 CRC	0	n/a
59,950,600 CRC - 62,556,699 CRC	1	4.44% 2.22%
62,557,200 CRC - 65,163,199 CRC	0	n/a
65,163,700 CRC - 67,769,799 CRC	0	n/a
67,770,300 CRC - 70,376,299 CRC	0	n/a
70,376,800 CRC - 72,982,899 CRC	0	n/a
72,983,400 CRC - 75,589,399 CRC	0	n/a
75,589,900 CRC - 78,195,999 CRC	0	n/a
HIGH SALARIES
78,196,500 CRC - 83,409,099 CRC	0	n/a
83,409,600 CRC - 88,622,199 CRC	0	n/a
88,622,700 CRC - 93,835,299 CRC	0	n/a
93,835,800 CRC - 99,048,299 CRC	0	n/a
99,048,900 CRC - 104,261,399 CRC	0	n/a
104,262,000 CRC - 109,474,499 CRC	0	n/a
109,475,100 CRC - 114,687,599 CRC	0	n/a
114,688,200 CRC - 119,900,699 CRC	0	n/a
119,901,300 CRC - 125,113,799 CRC	0	n/a
125,114,400 CRC - 130,326,899 CRC	1	2.22% 2.22%
130,327,500 CRC - 182,458,399 CRC	0	n/a

Gender / IT & Programming / Costa Rica (Gross CRC)

#		Surveys		AVERAGE SALARY / YEAR
1	Men	39	24,501,562 CRC
2	Women	5	20,539,607 CRC

Education / IT & Programming / Costa Rica (Gross CRC)

#		Surveys
1	Bachelors Degree	32	24,762,217 CRC
2	Masters Degree	8	23,302,549 CRC
3	Some College	4	19,914,035 CRC
4	High School	1	13,710,448 CRC

Experience / IT & Programming / Costa Rica (Gross CRC)

#		Surveys
1	20+ Years	3	34,875,628 CRC
2	12-16 Years	4	28,880,565 CRC
3	4-8 Years	14	26,743,194 CRC
4	8-12 Years	10	26,534,670 CRC
5	16-20 Years	1	22,676,978 CRC
6	2-4 Years	5	18,297,975 CRC
7	1-2 Years	7	12,615,698 CRC
8	0-1 Year	1	9,279,315 CRC

Age / IT & Programming / Costa Rica (Gross CRC)

#		Surveys
1	36-40	5	32,633,996 CRC
2	31-35	20	28,411,386 CRC
3	56-60	1	24,136,645 CRC
4	26-30	7	21,738,620 CRC
5	14-20	2	16,369,129 CRC
6	21-25	9	13,137,008 CRC
7	n/a	1	12,511,436 CRC

Work Type / IT & Programming / Costa Rica (Gross CRC)

#		Surveys		AVERAGE SALARY / YEAR
1	Permanent	39	24,136,645 CRC
2	Contract	6	21,686,489 CRC

Cities / IT & Programming / Costa Rica (Gross CRC)

#		Surveys		AVERAGE SALARY / YEAR
1	San José	40	24,345,169 CRC
2	--Other--	5	19,496,988 CRC

Careers / IT & Programming / Costa Rica (Gross CRC)

#		Surveys
1	J2EE Developer	2	74,651,569 CRC
2	IT Manager	5	32,373,341 CRC
3	Lead Developer	3	29,454,006 CRC
4	Ruby Developer	1	24,970,741 CRC
5	IT Project Manager	11	24,032,383 CRC
6	Database Administrator	2	21,269,441 CRC
7	Java Developer	4	18,923,547 CRC
8	Web Developer	2	17,307,486 CRC
9	.NET Developer	5	16,473,391 CRC
10	Software Developer	7	16,108,474 CRC
11	Android Developer	1	13,658,317 CRC
12	Share-point Administrator	1	10,321,934 CRC
13	PHP Developer	1	10,269,803 CRC

People's individual salary examples (surveys)

Developer

Posted 14 July 2022
Key knowledge and tasks

"HTML, Apache."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
San José	Masters Degree	1-2 Years	Intermediate	13,870,500 CRC

Business Development Manager - It

Posted 11 June 2022
Key knowledge and tasks

"Administration
Finance
Project manager."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
San José	Bachelors Degree	4-8 Years	Advanced	31,278,600 CRC

Java Developer

Posted 18 March 2022
Key knowledge and tasks

"Spring boot, programming, unit testing restful."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
San José	Bachelors Degree	2-4 Years	Advanced	28,672,000 CRC

Software Developer

Posted 18 August 2021
Key knowledge and tasks

"Python, SQl, PowerBI, DataBricks."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
San José	Bachelors Degree	0-1 Year	Advanced	9,290,800 CRC

Senior Software Engineer

Posted 28 March 2021
Key knowledge and tasks

"Aws, full stack developer."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
San José	Bachelors Degree	8-12 Years	n/a	29,744,400 CRC

. Net Software Developer

Posted 30 November 2020
Key knowledge and tasks

"- Experience in microservices
- Experience in. NET Framework and. NET Core
- Experience with Entity Framework
- Expereince using micro ORM like Dapper
- Experience designing and maintaining Rest and Restful APIs
- Experience consuming APis with JSON
- Experience in SQL server
- Expereinces with MVC(Model-View-Controller)
- Experience with CSS, Bootstrap, JQuery and Javascript
- Experience developing APIs and applications under the SOLID principles
- Expereince with N-Tier Architecture."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
San José	Bachelors Degree	1-2 Years	n/a	6,008,600 CRC

Mid Software Developer

Posted 04 September 2020
Key knowledge and tasks

"Full stack developer."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
San José	Bachelors Degree	4-8 Years	n/a	19,574,100 CRC

Security Technical Project Manager

Posted 02 August 2020
Key knowledge and tasks

"Security-driven engineer

PMI CAPM, Security + - CDN Web Application Firewall, DNS."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
San José	Some College	2-4 Years	n/a	23,397,900 CRC

Director

Posted 13 March 2020
Key knowledge and tasks

"Software Development."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
San José	Bachelors Degree	20+ Years	n/a	61,338,900 CRC

Project Manager

Posted 20 February 2020
Key knowledge and tasks

"End to end management if IT infrastructure projects."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
San José	Bachelors Degree	8-12 Years	n/a	27,312,500 CRC

Software Engineer

Posted 28 January 2020
Key knowledge and tasks

"Greenfield development."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
San José	Some College	2-4 Years	n/a	20,939,500 CRC

Android Developer

Posted 21 January 2020
Key knowledge and tasks

"Android, Java, C#. NET web services, MS Dyncamics NAV."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
San José	Bachelors Degree	4-8 Years	n/a	13,656,200 CRC

Senior Database Administrator

Posted 04 July 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Database administration, backup and recovery, performance and tuning."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
San José	Masters Degree	8-12 Years	n/a	29,842,400 CRC

Technical Support Engineer

Posted 03 July 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Troubleshooting Active Directory Domain Services."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
San José	Bachelors Degree	8-12 Years	n/a	12,710,600 CRC

Developer Expert

Posted 20 June 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"I am a developer expert."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
San José	Bachelors Degree	8-12 Years	n/a	35,708,700 CRC

Front End Devloper

Posted 13 June 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"React js web development."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
San José	Bachelors Degree	1-2 Years	n/a	10,202,600 CRC

Senior Java Developer

Posted 01 May 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Software development activities."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
--Other--	Bachelors Degree	8-12 Years	n/a	27,546,500 CRC

Qa Analyst

Posted 13 March 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Qa tester in software development."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
San José	Bachelors Degree	4-8 Years	n/a	13,603,100 CRC

Project Manager

Posted 04 March 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Project management."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
San José	Masters Degree	8-12 Years	n/a	14,283,400 CRC

It Manager

Posted 12 February 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"IT manager in some place with some experience."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
--Other--	Bachelors Degree	1-2 Years	n/a	10,202,600 CRC

Project Manager

Posted 08 January 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"A project manager (unspecified type/general) oversees designated projects for the company."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
San José	Bachelors Degree	4-8 Years	n/a	17,265,300 CRC

It Security

Posted 23 October 2018
Key knowledge and tasks

"IT security manager."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
San José	Masters Degree	8-12 Years	n/a	33,082,300 CRC

Project Manager

Posted 17 September 2018
Key knowledge and tasks

"Project manager."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
San José	Bachelors Degree	12-16 Years	n/a	23,433,400 CRC

It Program Manager

Posted 10 September 2018
Key knowledge and tasks

"Security Program Manager."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
San José	Masters Degree	12-16 Years	n/a	30,555,500 CRC

Project Manager

Posted 25 June 2018
Key knowledge and tasks

"Define Scope, Define Tasks, Define Risks, Control Risks, Management of the human resources."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
San José	Masters Degree	12-16 Years	n/a	25,087,500 CRC

Sap Consultant

Posted 17 September 2017
Key knowledge and tasks

"General consultancy of SAP systems, help in implementation project and develop custom needed programs depending on the operation of each customer."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
San José	Bachelors Degree	4-8 Years	n/a	22,899,100 CRC

Programmer

Posted 27 July 2017
Key knowledge and tasks

"Develop code based on user specifications."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
San José	High School	1-2 Years	n/a	13,687,500 CRC

IT & PROGRAMMING / SALARY COSTA RICA

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23,809,263 CRC

24,348,297 CRC

14,075,365 CRC

Average Salary / IT & Programming / Costa Rica

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