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