Salary and Experience by Language

Salary and Experience by Language Dwemerius Clojure F# Go Scala Groovy Hack Erlang Rust Perl OCaml CoffeeScript Ruby Goblin Cobol C# Objective-C Khalijiti TypeScript R Nordic Tamarin Java Haskell JavaScript Kotlin Swift CSS HTML VBA VB.NET C Orcish Visual Basic 6 Matlab Assembly PHP Number of respondents 10,000 20,000 30,000 Median salary (USD) Average years of professional programming experience Developers using languages that appear above the line in this chart, such as Go, Clojure, and F#, are being paid more even given how much experience they have. Developers using languages below the line, like PHP and Visual Basic 6, however, are paid less even given years of experience. The size of the circles in this chart represents how many developers are using that language compared to the others.

A screenshot of a Stack Overflow chart titled “Salary and Experience by Language” compares programming languages by median salary and average years of professional experience. The joke is that fictional or obscure languages such as Goblin, Orcish, Tamarin, and Khalijiti appear alongside real languages, humorously treating fantasy languages as programming languages with salary statistics. It is shared as a nerdy programming reaction to compare the prestige and pay of different languages. EN: A screenshot of a Stack Overflow chart titled “Salary and Experience by Language” compares programming languages by median salary and average years of professional experience. The joke is that fictional or obscure languages such as Goblin, Orcish, Tamarin, and Khalijiti appear alongside real languages, humorously treating fantasy languages as programming languages with salary statistics. It is shared as a nerdy programming reaction to compare the prestige and pay of different languages.

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