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The 2017 SO Developer Survey has Perl in 6th place for highest compensation in the world. https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2017#technology-to... Interestingly, Perl places 5th in the USA for highest compensation, and it doesn't even make the lists of France, Germany, India, and the UK.

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Hmm, I am pretty surprised by that, but I'll take it at face value.

I suspect there is too much else going on for a comparison of salaries by language to be meaningful. Those Perl programmers are probably highly paid mainly because they have 20ish years of experience, and lots of other valuable Linux/Unix experience. There are probably lots of fresh graduate and entry level JavaScript / Java / C++ developers bringing down those averages.

I always get a good laugh when I see job ads for a "Junior Perl developer" paying 25k GBP or something. They stopped making those 20 years ago.

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