SOFTWARE DEVELOPER SALARY IN GERMANY

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Average gross salary for Software Developer GROSS SALARY
EUR 54,042
Average gorss salary (USD) for Software Developer GROSS SALARY (USD)
US$ 65,615
Average net salary for Software Developer NET SALARY
EUR 34,114
The most typical salary for Software Developer MOST TYPICAL GROSS
EUR 44,285
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  Updated: 16 Apr 2020   Diff. gross vs. net: 36%
  Salary entries: 120

Software Developer Earnings in Germany

Average salary for Software Developer in Germany is EUR 54,042.

Average take home earning is EUR 34,114 (Net).

The most typical salary is EUR 44,285 (Gross).

These data are from our visitors surveys (120 individual salaries).

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Percentage of people Earn this salary or more
14 % EUR 72,261
35 % EUR 62,288
61 % EUR 53,093
90 % EUR 44,285
98 % EUR 35,640
99 % EUR 20,000
100 % EUR 8,000
City Avg. gross salary (USD) Salary entries
Berlin EUR 57,869 US$ 69,726 35
München EUR 55,567 US$ 67,488 34
Frankfurt am Main EUR 56,109 US$ 69,878 11
Stuttgart EUR 48,733 US$ 59,637 09
Hamburg EUR 45,125 US$ 56,310 08
Karlsruhe EUR 66,650 US$ 75,768 04
Düsseldorf EUR 60,066 US$ 68,040 03
Mannheim EUR 47,500 US$ 59,850 02

Salary entries from individual employees for Software Developer in Germany

Below is the list of 100 individual salary profiles - all added on this website.

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(70/70)  SENIOR SAP CONSULTANT


 Posted: 16 Apr 2020

Bachelors Degree, 12-16 years: "Senior sap erp consultant with 10 years experience."
Individual GROSS salary:
EUR 8,000
US$ 8,872

(69/70)  SOFTWARE TECHNICAL ENGINEER


 Posted: 14 Apr 2020

Bachelors Degree, 2-4 years: "Very good at Python and Java."
Individual GROSS salary:
EUR 52,800
US$ 58,556

(68/70)  SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER


 Posted: 08 Apr 2020

Bachelors Degree, 8-12 years: "Software engineer backend."
Individual GROSS salary:
EUR 120,000
US$ 133,082

(67/70)  FULL STACK DEVELOPER


 Posted: 12 Mar 2020

Bachelors Degree, 8-12 years: "JAVA C# JAVASCRIPT NODEJS DEVOPS VAGRANT ANSIBLE."
Individual GROSS salary:
EUR 60,000
US$ 66,541

(66/70)  FRONTEND DEVELOPER


 Posted: 22 Feb 2020

Bachelors Degree, 2-4 years: "Frontend developer."
Individual GROSS salary:
EUR 60,000
US$ 66,541

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(65/70)  IDENTITY MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT


 Posted: 07 Jan 2020

Masters Degree, 2-4 years: "Identity management consultant."
Individual GROSS salary:
EUR 80,000
US$ 88,721

(64/70)  IT PROFESSIONAL


 Posted: 22 Dec 2019

Bachelors Degree, 4-8 years: "Functional Testing Automation Testing Robotic Process Automation Automation Anywhere."
Individual GROSS salary:
EUR 70,000
US$ 84,521

(63/70)  SOFTWARE DEVELOPER ANALYST


 Posted: 07 Nov 2019

Masters Degree, 2-4 years: "4+ years of experiance in application development, deployment, testing and support."
Individual GROSS salary:
EUR 50,000
US$ 60,372

(62/70)  MACHINE LEARNING ENGINEER


 Posted: 22 Oct 2019

Masters Degree, 2-4 years: "Python, Java, Tensorflow, Keras, AWS, ML, Deep Learning, Microservices."
Individual GROSS salary:
EUR 70,000
US$ 84,521

(61/70)  BACKEND ENGINEER


 Posted: 02 Oct 2019

Masters Degree, 8-12 years: "Scala backend engineer."
Individual GROSS salary:
EUR 60,000
US$ 72,446

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(60/70)  SOFTWARE DEVELOPER


 Posted: 23 Sep 2019

Bachelors Degree, 2-4 years: "I work with a travel booking company on maintaining and developing software solutions."
Individual GROSS salary:
EUR 45,000
US$ 54,335

(59/70)  SOFTWARE DEVELOPER


 Posted: 18 Sep 2019

Masters Degree, 0-1 year: "Developing software features, fixing bugs."
Individual GROSS salary:
EUR 42,000
US$ 50,712

(58/70)  SOFTWARE DEVELOPER


 Posted: 12 Sep 2019

Masters Degree, 2-4 years: "Software Developer."
Individual GROSS salary:
EUR 45,000
US$ 54,335

(57/70)  EMBEDDED


 Posted: 07 Sep 2019

Masters Degree, 12-16 years: "Embedded: Linux, ARM Cortex-M0+, CAN/CANopen."
Individual GROSS salary:
EUR 45,000
US$ 54,335

(56/70)  SOFTWARE


 Posted: 01 Sep 2019

Doctorate Degree, 2-4 years: "Softtware development."
Individual GROSS salary:
EUR 50,000
US$ 60,372

(55/70)  SOFTWARE DEVELOPER


 Posted: 30 Aug 2019

Masters Degree, 1-2 years: "Software developing."
Individual GROSS salary:
EUR 54,000
US$ 65,202

(54/70)  CONSULTANT


 Posted: 23 Aug 2019

Masters Degree, 4-8 years: "Software Engineering ans Problem solving."
Individual GROSS salary:
EUR 60,000
US$ 72,446

(53/70)  SDE IN TEST


 Posted: 16 Aug 2019

Masters Degree, 8-12 years: "Node.js, CI/CD, node.js, CI/CD."
Individual GROSS salary:
EUR 75,000
US$ 90,558

(52/70)  SENIOR ANDROID ENGINEER


 Posted: 15 Aug 2019

Bachelors Degree, 4-8 years: "Building apps, Adding new features."
Individual GROSS salary:
EUR 72,000
US$ 86,936

(51/70)  SAP ABAP CONSULTANT


 Posted: 08 Jul 2019

Bachelors Degree, 8-12 years: "Development of programs based on the requirement."
Individual GROSS salary:
EUR 70,000
US$ 84,521

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(50/70)  SOFTWARE ENGINEER


 Posted: 01 Jul 2019

Bachelors Degree, 4-8 years: "Writing code fixing bugs."
Individual GROSS salary:
EUR 63,000
US$ 76,069

(49/70)  SOFTWARE ENGINEER


 Posted: 19 Jun 2019

Bachelors Degree, 8-12 years: "Making software for automobile and other projects based."
Individual GROSS salary:
EUR 65,000
US$ 78,483

(48/70)  SOFTWARE ENGINEER


 Posted: 18 Jun 2019

Bachelors Degree, 4-8 years: "IOS Developer for Automobile Industry."
Individual GROSS salary:
EUR 58,000
US$ 70,031

(47/70)  CLOUD CONSULTING


 Posted: 27 May 2019

Bachelors Degree, 2-4 years: "Cloud consulting for external customers."
Individual GROSS salary:
EUR 60,000
US$ 72,446

(46/70)  SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER


 Posted: 24 May 2019

Masters Degree, 2-4 years: "Java Backend Developer and data analytics."
Individual GROSS salary:
EUR 62,000
US$ 74,861

(45/70)  SOFTWARE ENGINEER


 Posted: 13 May 2019

Some College, 2-4 years: "Software Engineering."
Individual GROSS salary:
EUR 50,000
US$ 60,372

(44/70)  SOFTWARE ENGINEER


 Posted: 12 May 2019

Bachelors Degree, 2-4 years: "Develop software."
Individual GROSS salary:
EUR 60,000
US$ 72,446

(43/70)  JUNIOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPER


 Posted: 11 May 2019

Masters Degree, 4-8 years: "Software Development."
Individual GROSS salary:
EUR 39,000
US$ 47,090

(42/70)  SOFTWARE DEVELOPER


 Posted: 11 May 2019

Some College, 12-16 years: "Playing a key role in the design, installation, testing and maintenance of software systems."
Individual GROSS salary:
EUR 58,200
US$ 70,273

(41/70)  WEB DEVELOPER


 Posted: 09 May 2019

Bachelors Degree, 1-2 years: "Frontend, Mobile developer."
Individual GROSS salary:
EUR 42,000
US$ 50,712

(40/70)  DEVOPS


 Posted: 01 May 2019

Masters Degree, 1-2 years: "Development and operations."
Individual GROSS salary:
EUR 65,000
US$ 78,483

(39/70)  PLM CONSULTANT


 Posted: 29 Apr 2019

Bachelors Degree, 8-12 years: "Development,Design."
Individual GROSS salary:
EUR 57,000
US$ 68,824

(38/70)  BACKEND ENGINEER


 Posted: 11 Mar 2019

Bachelors Degree, 4-8 years: "Senior Backend Engineer."
Individual GROSS salary:
EUR 58,000
US$ 70,031

(37/70)  SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER


 Posted: 18 Feb 2019

Masters Degree, 12-16 years: "Software development for java / backend and Dev ops."
Individual GROSS salary:
EUR 35,000
US$ 42,260

(36/70)  SOFTWARE DEVELOPER


 Posted: 14 Feb 2019

Bachelors Degree, 4-8 years: "Develop web application."
Individual GROSS salary:
EUR 54,000
US$ 65,202

(35/70)  MOBILE APPLICATION DEVELOPER


 Posted: 04 Feb 2019

Masters Degree, 4-8 years: "Analyse, Design and develop mobile application for different mobile platforms."
Individual GROSS salary:
EUR 70,000
US$ 84,521

(34/70)  JUNIOR FULL STACK SOFTWARE ENGINEER


 Posted: 01 Feb 2019

Bachelors Degree, 2-4 years: "Bit of frontend, bit of backend."
Individual GROSS salary:
EUR 33,000
US$ 39,845

(33/70)  SENIOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPER


 Posted: 29 Jan 2019

Bachelors Degree, 4-8 years: "Development Bug Fixing Analyst Design."
Individual GROSS salary:
EUR 45,000
US$ 54,335

(32/70)  SAP DEVELOPER


 Posted: 29 Jan 2019

Bachelors Degree, 8-12 years: "8+ Years of Experience in SAP ABAP Development."
Individual GROSS salary:
EUR 70,000
US$ 84,521

(31/70)  QA AUTOMATION ENGINEER


 Posted: 16 Jan 2019

Bachelors Degree, 12-16 years: "Automation testing."
Individual GROSS salary:
EUR 60,000
US$ 72,446

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(30/70)  SENIOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPER


 Posted: 20 Dec 2018

Masters Degree, 4-8 years: "Writing programs and consulting."
Individual GROSS salary:
EUR 68,000
US$ 82,106

(29/70)  SOFTWARE ENGINEER


 Posted: 19 Dec 2018

Masters Degree, 8-12 years: "Javascript developer."
Individual GROSS salary:
EUR 64,000
US$ 77,276

(28/70)  JUNIOR FULLSTACK DEVELOPER


 Posted: 15 Dec 2018

Bachelors Degree, 0-1 year: "Write and test software using javascript, react, and nodejs."
Individual GROSS salary:
EUR 42,000
US$ 50,712

(27/70)  SOFTWARE ENGINEER


 Posted: 14 Dec 2018

Bachelors Degree, 2-4 years: "Software engineer in the research deparment."
Individual GROSS salary:
EUR 44,000
US$ 53,127

(26/70)  FULL STACK SOFTWARE DEVELOPER


 Posted: 09 Dec 2018

Bachelors Degree, 8-12 years: "Full Stack Software Developer."
Individual GROSS salary:
EUR 60,000
US$ 72,446

(25/70)  SOFTWARE ENGINEER


 Posted: 10 Sep 2018

Bachelors Degree, 2-4 years: "Develop software."
Individual GROSS salary:
EUR 47,000
US$ 56,750

(24/70)  IOS DEVELOPER


 Posted: 28 Aug 2018

Bachelors Degree, 4-8 years: "To develop mobile applications for the iOS platform."
Individual GROSS salary:
EUR 65,000
US$ 78,483

(23/70)  BACKEND DEVELOPER


 Posted: 25 Aug 2018

Masters Degree, 2-4 years: "Implementing intra company software features, dealing with bugs, doing a little bit of dev-ops."
Individual GROSS salary:
EUR 55,000
US$ 66,409

(22/70)  MACHINE LEARNING ENGINEER


 Posted: 18 Aug 2018

Masters Degree, 4-8 years: "Deep learning computer vision."
Individual GROSS salary:
EUR 50,000
US$ 60,372

(21/70)  SENIOR QA ENGINEER


 Posted: 12 Aug 2018

Bachelors Degree, 4-8 years: "Automate acceptance tests."
Individual GROSS salary:
EUR 64,000
US$ 77,276

(20/70)  SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER


 Posted: 09 Aug 2018

Masters Degree, 16-20 years: "Developing iOS applications. Maintaining old applications."
Individual GROSS salary:
EUR 80,000
US$ 96,595

(19/70)  SOFTWARE DEVELOPER


 Posted: 03 Aug 2018

Masters Degree, 2-4 years: "Creating a VR AR application."
Individual GROSS salary:
EUR 40,000
US$ 48,298

(18/70)  AR VR DEVELOPER


 Posted: 11 Jul 2018

Masters Degree, 2-4 years: "Developing an ar/vr applicaiton."
Individual GROSS salary:
EUR 55,000
US$ 66,409

(17/70)  SOFTWARE DEVELOPER


 Posted: 07 Jul 2018

Masters Degree, 8-12 years: "Developing software for international company: c, python, php, web technologies."
Individual GROSS salary:
EUR 50,000
US$ 60,372

(16/70)  SOFTWARE ENGINEER


 Posted: 06 Jul 2018

Masters Degree, 8-12 years: "Develop Software."
Individual GROSS salary:
EUR 66,000
US$ 79,691

(15/70)  QA ENGINEER


 Posted: 02 Jul 2018

Masters Degree, 1-2 years: "Software quality Engineer."
Individual GROSS salary:
EUR 45,000
US$ 54,335

(14/70)  SENIOR SOFTWARE MANAGER


 Posted: 29 May 2018

Bachelors Degree, 16-20 years: "Software development in Fintech industry."
Individual GROSS salary:
EUR 76,734
US$ 92,652

(13/70)  JAVA DEVELOPER


 Posted: 02 May 2018

Bachelors Degree, 1-2 years: "Java, Web applications, Spring."
Individual GROSS salary:
EUR 50,000
US$ 60,372

(12/70)  VERIFICATION


 Posted: 26 Apr 2018

Masters Degree, 8-12 years: "Embedded software verification engineer for avionics."
Individual GROSS salary:
EUR 75,000
US$ 90,558

(11/70)  SENIOR EMBEDDED ENGINEER


 Posted: 13 Apr 2018

Bachelors Degree, 4-8 years: "Senior embedded Engineer in automotive domain with experience in AUTOSAR."
Individual GROSS salary:
EUR 48,000
US$ 57,957

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(10/70)  SOFTWARE DEVELOPER


 Posted: 11 Apr 2018

Masters Degree, 4-8 years: "Development for mobile and desktop applications."
Individual GROSS salary:
EUR 55,000
US$ 66,409

(9/70)  EMBEDDED DEVELOPER


 Posted: 05 Apr 2018

Masters Degree, 0-1 year: "Functional safety and secure software development for autonomous driving."
Individual GROSS salary:
EUR 52,200
US$ 63,028

(8/70)  SOFTWARE DEVELOPER


 Posted: 26 Feb 2018

Masters Degree, 4-8 years: "Programming in Java, managing and maintaining different products. Bringing new features into the product."
Individual GROSS salary:
EUR 63,000
US$ 76,069

(7/70)  APPLICATIONS DEVELOPER


 Posted: 24 Jan 2018

Masters Degree, 4-8 years: "Embedded, web, hardware design, QA, everything... Small startup."
Individual GROSS salary:
EUR 42,000
US$ 50,712

(6/70)  SENIOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPER


 Posted: 11 Nov 2017

Bachelors Degree, 12-16 years: "Software development with Linux, C, C++ and Python."
Individual GROSS salary:
EUR 74,400
US$ 79,939

(5/70)  SOFTWARE DEVELOPER


 Posted: 31 Oct 2017

Bachelors Degree, 8-12 years: "Develop applications and structuring databases."
Individual GROSS salary:
EUR 36,000
US$ 38,680

(4/70)  SOFTWARE DEVELOPER


 Posted: 26 Sep 2017

Masters Degree, 8-12 years: "I was working in a big company as an software engineer."
Individual GROSS salary:
EUR 100,500
US$ 107,983

(3/70)  SOFTWARE ENTWICLER


 Posted: 14 Sep 2017

Masters Degree, 2-4 years: "Developing software for Linux Windows and Mac in c++."
Individual GROSS salary:
EUR 45,000
US$ 48,350

(2/70)  SOFTWARE DEVELOPER


 Posted: 08 Aug 2017

Bachelors Degree, 4-8 years: "Software development You have profound knowledge in Java, JavaScript, Scala, C++, Go or Clojure as well as enthusiasm for automating and automatically scaling tests and deployments (with Docker and Kubernetes) You have fun solving complex problems and you want to work in a team that shares this ambition with you You want to develop yourself constantly and you love it to make our online-platform a little bit better every day You are interested in splitting large projects into small, manageable subprojects with microservices."
Individual GROSS salary:
EUR 42,000
US$ 45,127

(1/70)  SOFTWARE ENGINEER


 Posted: 10 Jul 2017

Bachelors Degree, 8-12 years: "ADAS programmer in C, machine learning, algorithm development, deep learning."
Individual GROSS salary:
EUR 65,000
US$ 69,840

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  SALARY BY LEVEL   SOFTWARE DEVELOPER   GERMANY

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Salary levels Avg. gross salary (USD) Avg. gross salary   Salary entries
125K US$ 133,082 EUR 120,000
01
105K US$ 110,565 EUR 100,250
02
85K US$ 92,658 EUR 80,000
02
75K US$ 87,969 EUR 72,261
12
65K US$ 74,630 EUR 62,288
25
55K US$ 65,214 EUR 53,093
31
45K US$ 54,306 EUR 44,285
35
35K US$ 45,449 EUR 35,640
10
25K US$ 27,184 EUR 20,000
01
Less US$ 8,872 EUR 8,000
01

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Avg. gross salary (USD) Avg. gross salary   Salary entries
Men US$ 66,141 EUR 54,834 100
Women US$ 61,133 EUR 49,668 16
N/A US$ 70,407 EUR 51,750 04

  SALARY BY EDUCATION   SOFTWARE DEVELOPER   GERMANY

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Avg. gross salary (USD) Avg. gross salary   Salary entries
Doctorate Degree US$ 67,696 EUR 51,666 03
Masters Degree US$ 64,395 EUR 52,990 61
Bachelors Degree US$ 66,074 EUR 54,598 51
Some College US$ 81,264 EUR 69,400 03
High School US$ 61,224 EUR 45,000 01
Bellow H. School US$ 67,889 EUR 60,000 01

Software Developer workers holding Some College degrees enjoy the highest average gross salaries in Germany. With an earned Some College, they grosses EUR 69,400. While Software Developer workers with High School education earn the least, with an average gross income of EUR 45,000. This is 32.73% lower of what Some College degree holders earn.


  SALARY BY EXPERIENCE   SOFTWARE DEVELOPER   GERMANY

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Avg. gross salary (USD) Avg. gross salary   Salary entries
20+ Years US$ 46,416 EUR 43,200 02
16-20 Years US$ 90,905 EUR 75,433 04
12-16 Years US$ 58,813 EUR 48,200 08
8-12 Years US$ 73,559 EUR 60,741 29
4-8 Years US$ 65,994 EUR 53,500 34
2-4 Years US$ 60,835 EUR 51,552 25
1-2 Years US$ 59,663 EUR 48,241 12
0-1 Year US$ 55,502 EUR 43,866 06

Software Developer workers in Germany with more years of work experience outperform their counterparts with less experience. Workers with 16-20 Years of experience earn a gross average of EUR 75,433 compared to EUR 43,200 for their counterparts with 20+ Years of experience. The difference between workers with 16-20 Years of experience and 20+ Years is 95.85%.


  SALARY BY AGE   SOFTWARE DEVELOPER   GERMANY

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Avg. gross salary (USD) Avg. gross salary   Salary entries
39-44 US$ 76,516 EUR 62,457 07
33-38 US$ 67,072 EUR 55,769 28
27-32 US$ 64,646 EUR 53,630 59
22-26 US$ 62,019 EUR 50,690 22
N/A US$ 70,407 EUR 51,750 04
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Avg. gross salary (USD) Avg. gross salary   Salary entries
Permanent US$ 65,582 EUR 53,906 108
Contract US$ 68,363 EUR 57,800 09
Part Time US$ 58,565 EUR 47,666 03
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  SALARY BY CITY   SOFTWARE DEVELOPER   GERMANY

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# Avg. gross salary (USD) Avg. gross salary   Salary entries
1. Karlsruhe Software Developer in Karlsruhe US$ 75,768 EUR 66,650 04
2. Düsseldorf Software Developer in Düsseldorf US$ 68,040 EUR 60,066 03
3. Berlin Software Developer in Berlin US$ 69,726 EUR 57,869 35
4. Frankfurt am Main Software Developer in Frankfurt am Main US$ 69,878 EUR 56,109 11
5. München Software Developer in München US$ 67,488 EUR 55,567 34
6. Stuttgart Software Developer in Stuttgart US$ 59,637 EUR 48,733 09
7. Mannheim Software Developer in Mannheim US$ 59,850 EUR 47,500 02
8. Hamburg Software Developer in Hamburg US$ 56,310 EUR 45,125 08
9. Leipzig Software Developer in Leipzig US$ 52,524 EUR 43,500 02
10. Köln Software Developer in Köln US$ 47,627 EUR 43,000 02

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  SALARY BY COUNTRY    SOFTWARE DEVELOPER

# Avg. gross salary (USD) Avg. gross salary   Salary entries
1. United States United States Software Developer US$ 89,778 US$ 89,778 251
2. United Kingdom United Kingdom Software Developer in United Kingdom US$ 69,859 GBP 47,994 64
3. Belgium Belgium Software Developer in Belgium US$ 68,831 EUR 56,379 42
4. Germany Germany US$ 65,615 EUR 54,042 120
5. Austria Austria Software Developer in Austria US$ 56,176 EUR 46,920 39
6. France France Software Developer in France US$ 51,999 EUR 41,657 39
7. China China Software Developer in China US$ 42,344 CNY 277,883 42
8. Russia Russia Software Developer in Russia US$ 27,306 RUB 1,350,826 23
9. India India Software Developer in India US$ 15,767 INR 979,328 485

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