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This obviously doesn't include the financial industry. I know for a fact the average salary range is higher than this. In some of the medium sized firms, not even the large ones. Not to mention Perl is still a highly valued language in this industry which wasn't even included here.

I assume this sample is based on start ups only?

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re: sample - Looking at CyberCoders job postings for New York right now it only shows 252 job posts in total so the sample is very small.

And you can slice and dice this kind of data in so many ways you can end of with many different types of results from it :)

Searching on CyberCoders for PHP, Python, Ruby & Perl at moment (in NY) returns these numbers of job posts...

  PHP      48
  Python   33
  Ruby     27
  Perl     13

However if we then break this down into clearly defined posts for a PHP developer, Python developer, etc we get...

  PHP      9
  Python   8
  Ruby     9   (3 Ruby, 6 RoR)
  Perl     1

And the average salary range given for these developer posts are...

  PHP      $80k - $121k
  Python   $93k - $128k
  Ruby     $83k - $128k
  Perl     $80k - $110k

As with quoted figures everywhere please take these with a large pinch of salt :)

We're talking about Ruby. Of course it is based on start ups only. Nobody here is interested in Perl, it is clearly the dinosaur language.

Don't try too hard to correct them. ;)

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