Well they aren't my numbers, they are the numbers that were on the job board that someone else posted. I was just listing what I saw. True the CF jobs are slightly higher paying, but that's a symtom of having a much smaller talent pool to draw from.
I would love CF to be a more serious competitor in the industry but frankly the only people who know how great it is are the ones using it. It has virtually no industry buzz and the common opinion of it is that it's expensive, slow, and not a "real" language. Unfortunately I don't Adobe has done much to dispel those myths. I hope I'm wrong. But I couldn't in good conscience tell a n00b to start learning CF over Ruby or PHP. Sad but true. On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Larry Lyons <[email protected]> wrote: > > Your numbers are somewhat deceptive. You also need to look at the > locations, and the median salary by location. You'll find that CF developer > salaries are higher than many of the other web based languages. > > That said, why does this sort of troll occur on a regular basis? > > >Wow. Whether you meant to or not you just made my point. Not about CA, but > >about the dismal state of CF employment. > > > >Total CF jobs: 2,382 > >Total PHP jobs: 21,015 > >Total .net jobs: 115,283 > >Total ruby jobs: 11,309 > >Total python jobs: 17,547 > > > >In each of the above (except ruby) there's more jobs in the +100K range > than > >the entire number of CF jobs. > > > >That speaks volumes... and I'm a CF guy, have been for 13+ years. I wish > it > >weren't so, but it is. > > > > > > > > > > > >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:340784 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
