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Jobs involving which post-1989 programming language will command the highest average salary in 2023?
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Ṁ500Ṁ259
resolved Jan 22
100%40%
Erlang
28%Other
6%
Rust
21%
Clojure
0.6%
Scala
5%
F#

Only programming languages created after 1989 are in-scope for this question. (COBOL may become a very valuable skill, but I don't care.)

Market will be resolved by consulting multiple websites tracking average salaries by programming language in different countries. If different websites provide contradictory answers I will attempt to use my best judgement.

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@RobinGreen Please resolve your closed markets. Thank you!

@traders Have any proof to resolve this?

@SirCryptomind https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/#section-top-paying-technologies-top-paying-technologies

Of the five entries in this market, this should resolve to Erlang, though it barely edged out F# by a nose.

https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#salary-and-experience-by-language suggests some likely candidates; the 2021 survey had similar results.

Hmm... https://www.efinancialcareers.co.uk/news/2022/03/solidity-programming-language-jobs

Neat question. I'd guess Java, if I didn't think it'd probably be some rather unrepresentative result. The outliers tend to get higher scores than the middlemen.

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