Software Engineers In Thailand

[enortham]

I’m interested in learning what the market for software engineers in Thailand is like.

How do they compare to their western counter parts? Of course not everybody is the same but I imagine they are some cultural or skill generalities that may play a huge part in the overall success of a project or sanity of the manager.

I’ve found a few sources, which I listed below, that indicate that the salaries average around 5k to 20k USD per year. I’m guessing that entry level engineers might fetch around 7k, mid 12k, and senior 17k USD per year. Does anyone know if that is a fair assessment? Also would those figures include the relevant payroll taxes that a company is required to pay? Ideally it would be great to know what the cost of each employee would average from the company stand point.

Would Bangkok be the only good place to consider hiring engineers in Thailand or are there any other regions where it might be easy to recruit talented people and find the appropriate infrastructure to run an IT based business?

Any help is appreciated and if anyone has any experience working in IT or experience running an IT based business I would love to hear about it.

Thanks,

Eric

2006 Outsourcing Guide:

http://www.cio.com/archive/071506/global_outsourcing.html

CertMag’s 2005 Salary Survey:

http://www.certmag.com/articles/templates/...&zoneid=224

A bit dated salary survey:

http://www.ethailand.com/index.php?compensation

[Grover]

good post. i'm also interested in this information.

[retiree]

See:

Improving quality through software process improvement in Thailand: initial analysis

Movorath Phongpaibul, Barry Bohem

ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes

Vol 30, Issue 4 (July 2005)

ABSTRACT

For almost 10 years there have been attempts in Thailand to

improve software quality by adopting western software process

improvement models. Only 17 of the 380 companies in Thailand

were able to implement software process models that we see here

in the US. 14 out of the 17 companies were not able to improve

their process to a higher level. Why were companies not

successful in implementing these software process models? Did

they find other ways to improve quality? The objective of this

paper is to analyze the experiences of software developers, project

managers and executive managers in implementing these software

process models in Thailand. The results will show that cultural

differences are a key factor to this problem. Thai people have

different cultural values, which we will explore further in this

paper.