OTOH, Here are the numbers for Average Salary by Languages Used (2 numbers, staff and management) in ascending order from the 2004 Salary Survey from Software Development Magazine. I am surprised that there is so little variation across languages: 13 out of 22 are in the $81-$85K range. But Python IS tied for first. This may indicate that the relatively small number of jobs listing Python as a requirement is due in part to a relatively small supply of Python programmers, not lack of demand for such programmers.
Delphi/Object Pascal $76K $96K Cobol $76K $95K EDI $78K $98K .NET $79K $98K Oracle/SQL Server/Sybase/database $80K $100K SAP/PeopleSoft/Oracle/ERP $81K $100K C# $81K $100K Perl/Javascript/PHP/scripting $81K $100K Lotus Notes/groupware $82K $101K Java $83K $102K Fortran $83K $102K C++ $84K $103K JavaBeans/ActiveX/component $84K $101K C $84K $104K Ada $84K $105K Biztalk/Crossworlds/bus. integration $84K $99K SOAP $85K $103K J2EE $85K $105K CORBA/COM/middleware $87K $106K J2ME $88K $104K Python $89K $105K Java messaging $89K $106K -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
