Programming Salaries Compared

I came across a great post from <The Unix Geek - Blogspot>. He had grabbed average pay for different programming languages, operating systems, and API's from <Indeed> and listed them in order. I've used his findings and the same method to expand on them.

Programming Languages

$82,000 - Objective-C
$80,000 - C++
$80,000 - TCL
$79,000 - C#
$79,000 - Java
$78,000 - Python
$77,000 - Perl
$74,000 - Ruby
$72,000 - JavaScript
$64,000 - Delphi
$64,000 - PHP
$64,000 - Visual Basic
$60,000 - C
$54,000 - Smalltalk

Operating Systems (generic average)

$86,000 - GNU/Linux
$55,000 - Microsoft Windows
$51,000 - Mac OS X

API's

$86,000 - Win32
$81,000 - Tcl/Tk
$76,000 - Qt
$75,000 - GTK+
$71,000 - .NET ($75,000 for "Visual Studio")
$43,000 - Cocoa ($60,000 for "Mac Programming")

Embedded (Various)

$71,000 - AVR
$70,000 - RFID
$67,000 - PIC