Average income for each programming language

by geekzhang on 2013-08-22 11:17:10

The internet is full of descriptions associating different programming languages with stereotypical "noob" or "average" programmers, but I'm still very curious about how these stereotypes map to real people in reality.

Below are the statistical results of income, sorted in ascending order:

Language | Average Household Income ($) | Data Points

--- | --- | ---

Puppet | 87,589.29 | 112

Haskell | 89,973.82 | 191

PHP | 94,031.19 | 978

CoffeeScript | 94,890.80 | 435

VimL | 94,967.11 | 532

Shell | 96,930.54 | 979

Lua | 96,930.69 | 101

Erlang | 97,306.55 | 168

Clojure | 97,500.00 | 269

Python | 97,578.87 | 2314

JavaScript | 97,598.75 | 3443

Emacs Lisp | 97,774.65 | 355

C# | 97,823.31 | 665

Ruby | 98,238.74 | 3242

C++ | 99,147.93 | 845

CSS | 99,881.40 | 527

Perl | 100,295.45 | 990

C | 100,766.51 | 2120

Go | 101,158.01 | 231

Scala | 101,460.91 | 243

ColdFusion | 101,536.70 | 109

Objective-C | 101,801.60 | 562

Groovy | 102,650.86 | 116

Java | 103,179.39 | 1402

XSLT | 106,199.19 | 123

ActionScript | 108,119.47 | 113