Bangalore: Yes, software engineers are among the highest paid professionals on the planet; but were you aware that their net wage can be somewhere in the range of $3 million a year. This astounding revelation came into light recently, when Business Insider ran a story which says that a Google engineer rejected a pay package that is worth $500,000 from a startup. Later it was made public that his annual earnings at the tech giant was approximately $3 million and this drove him to turned down the offer, reports Phil Johnson of ITWorld.    

But as per the experts this trend is certainly, unusual. And the records of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics- which says that average salary for an application software developer was $93,000, with only 10 percent of such developers making more than $139,000 in salary- echoed this view.

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