Perl is No 1 highest paid skill

[VinsWorldcom]

According to Business Insider: http://www.businessinsider.com/9-tech-skills-that-pay-over-120000-2016-10

[Your Mother]

It’s fun but it’s complete nonsense. The salaries, as averages, are too high by far. Consider, for them to be accurate the job boards would have to be full of $275,000 PHP jobs to counter the raft of $20/hr jobs you actually see there. That and nearly no one puts the salary on job listings when it gets to the $100K range because it’s “based on experience” at that point and two devs in the same office with the same title might have $50K disparity in salary. Ah… I remember the day an HR rep at Amazon left a sheet on the printer with everyone’s salaries and stock options in a department listed. Good times.

[BrowserUk]

There is an established and well researched theorem that 'rarity' aka 'scarcity' aka 'exclusivity', is a greater influence that any other -- including functionality, reliability, accuracy, performance and ongoing maintenance costs -- than any other single factor; in what (some) people are prepared to spend on something.

(Basically, people with more money than sense are willing to pay through the nose to be 'one of a few'; but I digress. ({cough}pple fanboys{/cough})

So, the quickest way for a Perl programmer to increase his/her market value is to encourage other Perlers, and potential Perlers, to join the PHP/JS/... bandwagon.

(And if a few us pooled our resources and commissioned hits on a few key players -- we know who they are :) -- it could increase all our net worths immeasurably :)

Of course, the ultimate position is that there is just one Perl guy left, who is in such demand that he can charge anything he asks, and within a year or two, he is so rich he can't be bothered any more; and Perl dies. :(

[stevieb]

...I'd nearly pay to have a Perl job here in Canada...