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		admissionsguy on April 16, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: PHP in 2021 > There are likely a large number of "PHP" jobs available overall though which could bring average pay down, the low-end is low because there's such a low barrier to entry for something like WordPress development. I was about to write exactly that. There is a long tail of relatively unskilled developers who technically count as PHP devs. I also do not perceive PHP salaries to be lower relative to other web dev stacks.

busterarm on April 16, 2021 [–]

I guess I can only speak for what I've seen in New York, where it seems like PHP dev salaries are a bit stunted. WordPress or otherwise.

cutler on April 16, 2021 | [–]

It's the same everywhere outside Silicon Valley. PHP rates are consistently 20% lower than, say, Ruby, Python or JS.

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