Salaries Offered for Perl, Php, Python and Ruby Positions
Future salary is a significant motivator for somebody to learn a new language (use it for a living). We used the OdinJobs Market Statistics tool to help us analyze which skill pays more. The market statistics tool helps analyze salaries offered in jobs targeting junior-mid level programmers and senior/Lead/Architect developers.
First we compared how salaries varied between a jr-mid level position and a senior level position within a language. The results are below.
 | Perl Median Salary Comparison Senior level architects and lead programmers using perl earn 10% more than the developers. This is a median salary, which means a lot of variation in salaries is squished into a single number. In all jobs that required perl, the median salary was $80,560. The variations in median salary also varies according to locations but this chart has been generated for the entire United States.
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PHP Median Salary Comparison Median Salary for All Php jobs: $66,200 Median Salary for Php Architects: $71,000 Median Salary for Php Developers: $64,540
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 | Python Median Salary Comparison
Median Salary for all Python Jobs: $75,720 Median Salary for Python Architects: $80,310 Median Salary for Python Developers: $74,790
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Ruby Median Salary ComparisonMedian Salary for all Ruby Jobs: $74,150 Median Salary for Ruby Architects: $82,890 Median Salary for Ruby Developers: $ 73,880
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This is part of the "What Makes a Programming Language Popular" series where we compare Perl, PHP, Python and Ruby. See
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