--- title: Top 7 Highest Paid Programming Languages 2021 | daily.dev description: According to analysts, there are more than 250 different programming languages ​​in the world. You can easily miscalculate and choose an unpopular or... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/top-7-highest-paid-programming-languages-2021-gev3cbrlh twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Top 7 Highest Paid Programming Languages 2021 | daily.dev og:description: According to analysts, there are more than 250 different programming languages ​​in the world. You can easily miscalculate and choose an unpopular or... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/top-7-highest-paid-programming-languages-2021-gev3cbrlh og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/geV3CBRLh.png og:image:alt: Top 7 Highest Paid Programming Languages 2021 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Top 7 Highest Paid Programming Languages 2021 **[Honeypot](https://daily.dev/sources/honeypot)** · 4 min read · 149 upvotes · 14 comments ## Summary According to analysts, there are more than 250 different programming languages ​​in the world. You can easily miscalculate and choose an unpopular or impractical programming language. In this short article, I'm going to run through the top 7 programming languages that you can learn for a high-paying job. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@eli\_mcgarvie** · 11 upvotes > TL;DR > > 1. Scala: $115,446 > 2. G0: $115,685 > 3. Objective-C: $101,085 > 4. Kotlin: $98,763 > 5. Ruby on Rails: $91,876 > 6. Perl: $93,368. > 7. C#: $81,999 **@dshung1997** · 5 upvotes > Not quite correct. I strongly believe there should be a slot for Javascript :) **@kyrcha** · 3 upvotes > JavaScript is probably not there because with big demand there is also big supply. **@natedata** · 3 upvotes > 47. CSS > 48. PHP **@idabida** · 2 upvotes > Guess I should get into Scala ;-) ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#general-programming](https://daily.dev/tags/general-programming), [#javascript](https://daily.dev/tags/javascript) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/top-7-highest-paid-programming-languages-2021-gev3cbrlh) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Top 7 Highest Paid Programming Languages 2021","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/top-7-highest-paid-programming-languages-2021-gev3cbrlh","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/top-7-highest-paid-programming-languages-2021-gev3cbrlh"},"datePublished":"2021-12-01T16:32:16.582Z","dateModified":"2021-12-01T16:32:16.582Z","description":"According to analysts, there are more than 250 different programming languages ​​in the world. 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I strongly believe there should be a slot for Javascript :)","datePublished":"2021-12-02T04:04:31.483Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/geV3CBRLh#c-6-F96NQHH","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Sy-Hung Doan","url":"https://daily.dev/dshung1997","image":"https://avatars2.githubusercontent.com/u/19758667?v=4"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":5}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"JavaScript is probably not there because with big demand there is also big supply.","datePublished":"2021-12-02T16:24:10.483Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/geV3CBRLh#c-uQT21Ca-b","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Kyriakos Chatzidimitriou","url":"https://daily.dev/kyrcha","image":"https://avatars0.githubusercontent.com/u/400161?v=4"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":3}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"CSS\nPHP","datePublished":"2021-12-02T10:01:10.283Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/geV3CBRLh#c-jNw5nvMrp","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Nate Daly","url":"https://daily.dev/natedata","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s---PCWtLQs--/f_auto/v1726039818/avatars/avatar_yQvV75GJNPqNMpljXy4uK"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":3}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"Guess I should get into Scala ;-)","datePublished":"2021-12-01T16:41:53.628Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/geV3CBRLh#c-BETGpr3_6","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Ida","url":"https://daily.dev/idabida","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto/v1629477333/avatars/5nsgpcchg"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":2}}]} ```