Brief Update on Stack Overflow Survey Data:
Brief Update on Stack Overflow Survey Data:
I just saw that they've posted the raw survey results data and am beginning to examine it. The following are a few preliminary observations (not verified yet):
Those who listed Delphi as one of the languages they use were 2% (I believe this is a rise).
8.8% of those listing Delphi as a language they use were from the United States.
Delphi users only make up 0.8% of respondents from the United States, confirming it's as bleak here for Delphi as Americans who are not Nick Hodges have maintained. ;-)
But the burning issue for me when the data came out was why the average U.S. Delphi salary was so much higher than the rest of the world. Delphi was one of the lowest paid languages everywhere else in the world yet one of the highest in the United States. Lots of explanations were floated. We were all wrong. :-)
I think the issue came down to user error. Four of the 179 United States Delphi users are listed as having a salary over one million dollars a year! Two are allegedly making two million dollars a year. The survey had a question for "salary" and "salary type" (Weekly, Monthly, Yearly).
The four very rich Delphi users entered values of:
50,000 weekly
130,000 monthly
135,000 monthly
150,000 weekly
I think it much more likely that they entered their yearly salary in the box and then selected that they get paid weekly or monthly rather than understanding that Stack Overflow was going to multiply the Salary field by 12 or 52 if they selected Weekly or Monthly to compute their annual salary.
I haven't done any revised computations yet if we set these salary values to yearly but I will and redo the charts to reflect this.
Is there anything anyone wants me to look for or break down in the Stack Overflow survey data while I'm at it?
I just saw that they've posted the raw survey results data and am beginning to examine it. The following are a few preliminary observations (not verified yet):
Those who listed Delphi as one of the languages they use were 2% (I believe this is a rise).
8.8% of those listing Delphi as a language they use were from the United States.
Delphi users only make up 0.8% of respondents from the United States, confirming it's as bleak here for Delphi as Americans who are not Nick Hodges have maintained. ;-)
But the burning issue for me when the data came out was why the average U.S. Delphi salary was so much higher than the rest of the world. Delphi was one of the lowest paid languages everywhere else in the world yet one of the highest in the United States. Lots of explanations were floated. We were all wrong. :-)
I think the issue came down to user error. Four of the 179 United States Delphi users are listed as having a salary over one million dollars a year! Two are allegedly making two million dollars a year. The survey had a question for "salary" and "salary type" (Weekly, Monthly, Yearly).
The four very rich Delphi users entered values of:
50,000 weekly
130,000 monthly
135,000 monthly
150,000 weekly
I think it much more likely that they entered their yearly salary in the box and then selected that they get paid weekly or monthly rather than understanding that Stack Overflow was going to multiply the Salary field by 12 or 52 if they selected Weekly or Monthly to compute their annual salary.
I haven't done any revised computations yet if we set these salary values to yearly but I will and redo the charts to reflect this.
Is there anything anyone wants me to look for or break down in the Stack Overflow survey data while I'm at it?
A. Bouchez Only the Americans. :-) I've found two survey participants who listed Delphi as one of their tools who put down salaries of $280,000 USD and $380,000 USD a year. Another put down $500,000 and declined to select a pay period. While possible, those would be extraordinary salaries for a developer. [NOTE: the $280,000 respondent also lists their position at executive (CEO/CTO/etc) at a company with 100-500 employees.] Combined with a significant percentage who declined to give a salary, I can see how these outliers could skew the average.
ReplyDeleteTo be fair to Delphi users, one of the participants who appears to have entered their salary wrong also included COBOL in their list of development tools. :-)
I bet the Javascript professionals are making over a million.
ReplyDeleteRichard Baroniunas just checked; only a few worldwide. Some look to be errors like with Delphi; the others all have executive jobs (CEO, CTO, etc.). I want to try today to break out the distribution of Delphi developers by country and examine the age ranges for different languages.
ReplyDeleteThis is complicated by the fact that participants listed all of the technologies they use, so they might fall into the categories of 2-5 languages.