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This states that it is average household income by language.

I could assert the following from the data:

* ActionScript developers are horribly underpaid, but more likely to marry lawyers, doctors and bankers.

* Haskell developers are relatively well paid, but more likely to live alone or with a stay-at-home parent.

* Pythonists get roughly the same salary as Haskell developers, but their partners are all low-paid key workers.



Pythonistas marry for love.


Haskellers are single because you're not my type


Being lazy doesn't help either.


Or terse.


Maybe.


ActionScript has died out in many places, but still has heavy use, drumroll in the Federal Goveernment sector. I was working in a shop recently with a guy who ONLY knew ActionScript/FLEX...... pathetic, but his salary sure wasn't.


It also shows that sysadmins that know Puppet probably doesn't have a partner.


Those incomes look like fairly typical mid-level individual salaries (in the DC area, at least). I would expect the household numbers to be higher than listed to account for those that have working spouses.


Fair enough, I didn't bother converting currency. Perhaps this is the mean of all adults in the household, or mean of all working adults.


Yeah, those are definitely all possible. I would have preferred to use personal income but it's not available via the API, and I figured that using household income was better than nothing.




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