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Chiang Mai

Thailand

Chiang Mai is one of the world's most popular destinations for digital nomads, offering extremely low living costs with a comfortable lifestyle. Local salaries are modest but remote workers enjoy excellent purchasing power.

Median Salary

$5000.00

CoL Index

22.00

Population

127240

Timezone

Asia/Bangkok

Cost of Living Breakdown

All indices use New York City = 100 as baseline.

Overall

22.00

Rent

12.00

Groceries

22.00

Restaurants

14.00

Transport

10.00

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 $24200.00 $20570.00 $17600.00 $41800.00
Engineering Manager $19250.00 $16362.00 $14850.00 $27500.00
AI/ML Researcher $17600.00 $14960.00 $12100.00 $27500.00
Cloud Architect $17050.00 $14492.00 $12650.00 $24750.00
Tech Lead $17050.00 $14492.00 $12650.00 $24200.00
ML Engineer $15400.00 $13090.00 $11000.00 $23100.00
Site Reliability Engineer $14850.00 $12622.00 $10450.00 $22000.00
Security Engineer $14300.00 $12155.00 $10120.00 $21450.00
Blockchain Developer $14300.00 $12155.00 $9900.00 $22000.00
Product Manager $14300.00 $12155.00 $9900.00 $22000.00
Data Scientist $13750.00 $11687.00 $9350.00 $20900.00
DevOps Engineer $13750.00 $11687.00 $9680.00 $20900.00
Data Engineer $13200.00 $11220.00 $9020.00 $20350.00
Software Engineer $13200.00 $11220.00 $9350.00 $20350.00
Backend Developer $12650.00 $10752.00 $8800.00 $19250.00
Full Stack Developer $12320.00 $10472.00 $8580.00 $18700.00
Mobile Developer $12100.00 $10285.00 $8250.00 $18480.00
Frontend Developer $11550.00 $9817.00 $7920.00 $17600.00
UI/UX Designer $11000.00 $9350.00 $7480.00 $16500.00
QA Engineer $9350.00 $7947.00 $6380.00 $13750.00

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