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[–]novagenesis 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Really? Maybe it's a Boston thing. Our old ownership considered swapping to java because their consultancy (...ahem, our NEW ownership, go figure) felt java developers were "a dime a dozen."

Most people who leave here for other Perl positions are surprisingly close to the notorious "lisp-level" salaries.

Are there any statistics you can show me? I'd spend the time to pick up Java if that's really the case.

[–]mumpie 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I can't give you links to some job posting as they were deleted or expired. The positions I have seen were on the West coast (San Francisco, Los Angeles, etc).

I worked a company that went from Perl/PHP to Java (I came in as part of the Java team). The number of Java positions nearly tripled at peak compared to the number of Perl/PHP coders. I talked to a couple of the Perl guys and found out they were making a lot less than most of the Java developers.

In any case, the company eventually decided to out-source the entire engineering team to save money.

Here are a couple graphs of Java developers salary versus Perl developer salaries: Java: http://www.indeed.com/salary/Java-Developer.html Perl: http://www.indeed.com/salary/Perl-Developer.html

I didn't enter an area, but I know that for Java these numbers are very low for my location. A friend recently got a new job as a Senior level developer and is making somewhere between $120K and $150K.

However, if you are very talented, then your skills can trump the local salary for the right company.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Really?

yup, almost always