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Stack Overflow has taken a deeper dive into the data from its most recent developer survey, and it has come up with a couple of lists of the best-paying programming languages. Interestingly, it’s not necessarily the most popular languages that pay the best.
In the United States, the list of top-paying programming languages looks like this:
- Go — $110,000
- Scala — $110,000
- Objective-C — $109,000
- CoffeeScript — $105,000
- Perl — $105,000
- C++ — $100,890
- R — $100,000
- Swift — $100,000
- TypeScript — $100,000
- Python — $99,000
Worldwide, the list is a bit different:
- Clojure — $72,000
- Rust — $65,714
- Elixir — $65,000
- F# — $64,516
- Go — $64,516
- Perl — $63,068
- Groovy — $61,809
- Ruby — $60,000
- Scala — $60,000
- R — $57,125
