The real software engineer salary in Egypt
Search 'software engineer salary Egypt' and you will find chaos: one aggregator says 8,000 EGP, another says 120,000 per year, a third quotes American remote listings at $116,000. None of them reconcile the contradiction, so this page does. There are three distinct markets for Egyptian software engineers — typical local employers, top product companies and multinationals with Cairo engineering offices, and USD-paying international remote employers — and each has its own honest range. The numbers here come from 2,590 community-survey responses queried directly from the source API, cross-checked against verified levels.fyi packages and the editorial ranges of Egypt's largest job platform. The spread between segments is not noise; it is the single most useful fact about Egyptian engineering pay.
Last updated July 2026 · conversions at ~49 EGP/USD · EGP figures are net/month
A software engineer in Egypt earns a median of 27,000 EGP net/month at local employers in 2026, across 2,125 survey respondents. Juniors earn 10,000–22,000 EGP/month, mid-level engineers 18,000–42,000 (28,000–55,000 at top product companies), and seniors 35,000–70,000 locally, 60,000–105,000 at multinationals, or $2,500–5,000+/month remotely. Verified Cairo packages on levels.fyi show a median around 43,500 EGP/month — with Microsoft Egypt averaging roughly 101,000.
| Experience level | Typical local companies | Top product & multinational | USD-remote (international) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior (0–2 yrs) | 10,000–22,000 | 16,000–32,000 | Rare at this level |
| Mid-level (2–5 yrs) | 18,000–42,000 | 28,000–55,000 | $1,800–3,500 |
| Senior (5+ yrs) | 35,000–70,000 | 60,000–105,000 | $2,500–5,000+ |
All EGP figures are net (take-home) per month.
Within the local market, employer type explains more salary variance than any technology choice. Mid-level engineers at product companies report a median of 31,666 EGP against 26,000 at software houses — and the gap widens with seniority as funded startups, fintechs, and multinationals bid for scarce senior talent. Verified packages at Cairo engineering offices run higher still: levels.fyi's Cairo median is about 522,000 EGP/year (~43,500/month), with Microsoft Egypt averaging ~1.2M/year (~101,000/month), Siemens ~63,000/month, and Valeo ~51,000/month.
The USD-remote segment is no longer an exotic path — 465 of 2,590 survey respondents (18%) work remotely for foreign employers, and including them lifts the all-roles 90th percentile from 75,000 to 97,000 EGP/month. Roughly 11% of all respondents net more than 100,000 EGP/month. Mid-band international rates for Egyptian engineers run $1,800–3,500/month mid-level and $2,500–5,000+ senior; vetted marketplaces average around $47,000/year. That segment, not the local listicle 'average', is the honest ceiling for an experienced engineer with strong English and a portfolio.
Why Google shows you 8,000 EGP — and 120,000 — for the same job
Aggregator pages for Egypt are broken in documented, mechanical ways. Some label monthly self-reports as yearly ('EGP 11,117 per year'), some average profiles collected across five years of currency collapse, and the most-quoted career listicle publishes 10,000–22,000 EGP as the software-engineer average — a range that matches the survey's junior band (10,000–23,768, n=212) almost exactly. Meanwhile remote-job boards quote US-listing salaries that no Egyptian employer pays. Every one of those numbers describes a fragment of the market while claiming to describe all of it.
The pound's fall from ~15.7 per dollar in early 2022 to ~49 today means any figure without a collection date is unusable. Prices roughly doubled over the same period, so employers quoting 2023-era 'market rates' are proposing a real-terms pay cut of about half. Ask two questions of every salary figure: when was it collected, and at what exchange rate? Figures that cannot answer are marketing, not data.
How to negotiate with these numbers
State your segment before your number: 'for a senior engineer at a product company, verified Cairo packages run 60,000–105,000 EGP' — segment-matched data is much harder to wave away than a bare figure.
Use verified public packages as anchors: levels.fyi's Cairo median (~43,500 EGP/month) and named multinational averages are checkable in the room, unlike listicle numbers.
If your offer comes from an outsourcing firm, price the ~22% product-company premium into your ask — or into your decision to keep interviewing.
Track the whole package: profit share, USD-linked components, medical, and transportation change real compensation by thousands of pounds monthly.
Negotiate a review cadence, not just a starting salary — at 13–15% inflation, a static number is a guaranteed real-terms cut within the year.
Where these numbers come from
Primary source: the egytech.fyi community survey's public API, queried July 2026 — 2,125 respondents at Egypt-local employers (median 27,000 EGP net/month, 75th percentile 47,800, 90th percentile 75,000) and 2,590 including remote workers for foreign employers (median 30,000, 90th percentile 97,000). Cross-checks: levels.fyi verified Cairo packages (median ≈522,000 EGP/year, updated July 2026), WUZZUF Careers editorial ranges (May 2026), and Arc.dev/Plane remote benchmarks (~$44,000–47,000/year averages for Egyptian engineers).
All EGP figures are net monthly; USD conversions use ~49 EGP/USD (July 2026). Survey data is post-float (2024); where 2026 editorial sources ran higher, ranges were widened upward only. 'Software engineer' here spans backend, frontend, full-stack, and adjacent engineering tracks — see the role pages for per-discipline splits.
| Survey segment | Responses | Median (EGP/mo) | 90th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| All engineering roles, Egypt-local employers only | 2,125 | 27,000 | 75,000 |
| All engineering roles, including remote for foreign employers | 2,590 | 30,000 | 97,000 |
Frequently asked questions
- What is the average software engineer salary in Egypt in 2026?
- The median across 2,125 engineers at Egypt-local employers is 27,000 EGP net/month (30,000 including remote workers for foreign companies). Juniors earn 10,000–22,000, mid-level 18,000–42,000, seniors 35,000–70,000 locally and 60,000–105,000 at top companies — so a single 'average' hides more than it reveals.
- How do Egyptian software engineers earn over 100,000 EGP per month?
- Mainly through USD-paid remote work for international employers ($2,000+/month clears 100,000 EGP at today's rate) or senior roles at top multinationals — Microsoft Egypt's verified average is around 101,000 EGP/month. About 11% of 2,590 survey respondents net over 100,000.
- Is levels.fyi or Glassdoor more reliable for Egypt salaries?
- levels.fyi, by a wide margin — its Cairo packages are verified and current, though they skew toward multinationals and product companies. Glassdoor's Egypt data mixes stale pre-devaluation profiles and mislabels monthly figures as yearly, making many of its Egypt pages unusable.
- Which type of company pays software engineers most in Egypt?
- USD-paying international remote employers first, then funded product companies, fintechs, and multinationals with Cairo offices (60,000–105,000 EGP for seniors), then typical local companies. Survey data puts the product-versus-outsourcing gap at roughly 22% at the median for the same experience level.
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