What is the average salary for Perl programmers in 2020?

If I have no definitive answer on this, the Business Insider has some insights:

HackerRank polled 116000 developers about their salaries and got interesting results:

• Perl is associated with an average global salary of $84,025.50 (54.2% higher than the global average salary)
• Scala is associated with an average global salary of $77,159.60
• Go is associated with an average global salary of $72,691.30
• Python is associated with an average global salary of $56,670.90
• JavaScript is associated with an average global salary of $55,690

Without more information about the polled panel it’s hard to state this results as “Truth” but they seems to confirm personal beliefs:

This time I feel really qualified to write this article because believe me, I love Perl ! I think in Perl, I dream in Perl, and I really appreciate the whole Perl community. I’ve been in love with this language for more than a decade but I decided that I needed a change.

I’ve already said in a previous article why I chose to learn JavaScript this year (instead of getting involved in Perl 6 for example) but let me tell you why you might also enjoy learning JavaScript if you love Perl. Perl developers form a very unified community that all too often, resist outside influences, but learning a second language like JavaScript can really be a very enlightening experience.