I think you meant to say “cheapest” developers. Forget about location. Cheapest in the world. Obviously, the managers need to be able to interact with them reasonably well, so this is a constraint that likely raises the costs.
Using this article [1] mining information from payscale.com, I found that the lowest hourly rate for a junior developer can be found in Alexandria, Egypt for about a dollar an hour.
Maybe the article is wrong, but I’d love to see data here. Objectively, India has improved relative to other countries, so we should expect that some locales in Africa could take the “lowest cost dev” title by this point.
I think you can avoid the racist appearance of your original comment by stating the actual objective, the resolution of which changes over time.
Using this article [1] mining information from payscale.com, I found that the lowest hourly rate for a junior developer can be found in Alexandria, Egypt for about a dollar an hour.
Maybe the article is wrong, but I’d love to see data here. Objectively, India has improved relative to other countries, so we should expect that some locales in Africa could take the “lowest cost dev” title by this point.
I think you can avoid the racist appearance of your original comment by stating the actual objective, the resolution of which changes over time.
[1] https://devoxsoftware.com/blog/average-software-developer-ho...