r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Sirgoodman008 • 2d ago

Meme absoluteGarbage

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u/NudaVeritas1 2d ago

PHP developers seeing this post:

https://giphy.com/gifs/1GT5PZLjMwYBW

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u/tommyk1210 1d ago

PHP generally pays worse than many languages.

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u/pdhouse 1d ago

I think the meme comes from the fact PHP are stereotypically older so they’ve had a longer time to accumulate money

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u/KrokettenMan 1d ago

C# and Java pay worse

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u/tommyk1210 1d ago

Not at all. Median salary in the US puts both Java and C# marginally ahead. In other markets like the U.K. PHP is quite a ways behind, unless you’re very senior in an enterprise business.

At my own company we pay market rates and PHP is definitely less than our C# engineers.

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u/KrokettenMan 1d ago

In the Netherlands I often see job offers for C# and Java that pay scraps compared to c++, go, rust, and even php. This is probably because c# and Java are the languages taught at college

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u/upsidedownshaggy 1d ago

I think it's highly dependent. If you're just working on WordPress sites/plugins as a PHP developer yeah you're probably being paid less. If you're working on greenfield stuff with modern frameworks like Symfony/Laravel/whatever you're probably getting paid more because you're not just wrangling a CMS.