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"The 2016 StackOverflow Survey puts PHP developers as the least paid" - which is very unfair. I think PHP developers should actually get paid more as compensati

by rob74 10y ago

"The 2016 StackOverflow Survey puts PHP developers as the least paid" - which is very unfair. I think PHP developers should actually get paid more as compensation for having to put up with PHP on a day-to-day basis, but that's just me unfortunately...

TheCoelacanth 10y ago
I think the low salaries are more a reflection of the fact that there are a lot of inexperienced developers writing PHP and that there is a lot of unimportant software written in PHP than it is that a given developer would make less by using PHP. A highly talented developer working on business critical software will make a lot more than an untalented developer working on low value software regardless of whether each piece of software is in PHP or Java; it's just that the first scenario is more common in Java than in PHP and the second scenario is more common in PHP than in Java.
donatj 10y ago
I've been doing primary PHP for almost ten years and people honestly just throw money at me to solve their problems. I really don't know how I make as much as I do; I hit the point where I made more than my parents combined a few years back and that made for a strange reflection point in my life. Basically for all the decent PHP developers I've known in my life money has never been an issue.
- sdoering 10y ago
  Not being a developer, but having had lot's of great moments with them, I can say, that in my tangenital environment there are lots and lots of school taught mediocre to bad PHP devs, that always find jobs, but on a very low pay grade (and rightly so). So maybe there are lots of mediocre php devs pulling the average down?
- vinceguidry 10y ago
  Decent PHP devs are the garbage collectors of IT, the guys that get paid really really well to do something nobody else wants to do.
city41 10y ago
But PHP is likely to become the next COBOL. As the talent pool dries up, salaries will rise.

by rob74 10y ago

TheCoelacanth 10y ago

I think the low salaries are more a reflection of the fact that there are a lot of inexperienced developers writing PHP and that there is a lot of unimportant software written in PHP than it is that a given developer would make less by using PHP. A highly talented developer working on business critical software will make a lot more than an untalented developer working on low value software regardless of whether each piece of software is in PHP or Java; it's just that the first scenario is more common in Java than in PHP and the second scenario is more common in PHP than in Java.

donatj 10y ago

I've been doing primary PHP for almost ten years and people honestly just throw money at me to solve their problems. I really don't know how I make as much as I do; I hit the point where I made more than my parents combined a few years back and that made for a strange reflection point in my life. Basically for all the decent PHP developers I've known in my life money has never been an issue.

sdoering 10y ago
Not being a developer, but having had lot's of great moments with them, I can say, that in my tangenital environment there are lots and lots of school taught mediocre to bad PHP devs, that always find jobs, but on a very low pay grade (and rightly so). So maybe there are lots of mediocre php devs pulling the average down?
vinceguidry 10y ago
Decent PHP devs are the garbage collectors of IT, the guys that get paid really really well to do something nobody else wants to do.

city41 10y ago

But PHP is likely to become the next COBOL. As the talent pool dries up, salaries will rise.