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Wellington

New Zealand · Capital

Wellington is New Zealand's capital with strong government, film (Weta Workshop), and creative industries. Living costs are lower than Auckland.

Median Salary

$36000.00

CoL Index

58.00

Population

215400

Timezone

Pacific/Auckland

Cost of Living Breakdown

All indices use New York City = 100 as baseline.

Overall

58.00

Rent

48.00

Groceries

58.00

Restaurants

55.00

Transport

48.00

Salaries by Role

Estimated City salaries are derived from country-level data adjusted for local cost of living.

Role Median (USD) Net (USD) Entry Senior
CTO $121971.00 $91478.00 $88706.00 $210676.00
Engineering Manager $97022.00 $72766.00 $74846.00 $138603.00
AI/ML Researcher $88706.00 $66529.00 $60985.00 $138603.00
Cloud Architect $85934.00 $64450.00 $63757.00 $124743.00
Tech Lead $85934.00 $64450.00 $63757.00 $121971.00
ML Engineer $77618.00 $58213.00 $55441.00 $116426.00
Site Reliability Engineer $74846.00 $56134.00 $52669.00 $110882.00
Security Engineer $72074.00 $54055.00 $51006.00 $108110.00
Blockchain Developer $72074.00 $54055.00 $49897.00 $110882.00
Product Manager $72074.00 $54055.00 $49897.00 $110882.00
Data Scientist $69301.00 $51975.00 $47125.00 $105338.00
DevOps Engineer $69301.00 $51975.00 $48788.00 $105338.00
Data Engineer $66529.00 $49896.00 $45462.00 $102566.00
Software Engineer $66529.00 $49896.00 $47125.00 $102566.00
Backend Developer $63757.00 $47817.00 $44353.00 $97022.00
Full Stack Developer $62094.00 $46570.00 $43244.00 $94250.00
Mobile Developer $60985.00 $45738.00 $41581.00 $93141.00
Frontend Developer $58213.00 $43659.00 $39918.00 $88706.00
UI/UX Designer $55441.00 $41580.00 $37700.00 $83162.00
QA Engineer $47125.00 $35343.00 $32156.00 $69301.00

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