Comparing popularity and pay scale of programming languages in 2017

   Some programming languages are more popular than others depending on how the developers use them to solve problems and build software. On the other hand, programming languages have different pay scale.
   The link between high pay and increased popularity is nowhere more apparent than with Go and Scala, topping the pay chart at $110,000:

1. Go -- $110,000
2. Scala -- $110,000
3. Objective-C -- $109,000
4. CoffeeScript -- $105,000
5. Perl -- $105,000
6. C++ -- $100,890
7. R- $100,000
8. Swift -- $100,000
9. TypeScript -- $100,000
10. Python -- $99,000

Top Paying Languages in the U.S. (source: Stack Overflow)

Worldwide, the rankings are:

1. Clojure -- $72,000
2. Rust -- $65,714
3. Elixir -- $65,000
4. F# -- $64,516
5. Go -- $64,516
6. Perl -- $63,068
7. Groovy -- $61,809
8. Ruby -- $60,000
9. Scala -- $60,000
10. R -- $57,125

The thing is that some of the fastest growing technologies are 
also the highest paying languages.

The choice of  a programming language belongs to developers.