{"id":2378,"date":"2009-02-23T20:07:08","date_gmt":"2009-02-23T11:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=2378"},"modified":"2009-02-23T20:07:08","modified_gmt":"2009-02-23T11:07:08","slug":"engineers-salary-and-life-in-japan-from-php-study-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/engineers-salary-and-life-in-japan-from-php-study-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Engineers Salary and Life in Japan &#8211; from PHP Study Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Asiajin readers,<br \/>\nI, Yusuke ANDO (aka yandod), was asked by Asiajin to write about my presentation on PHP developers&#8217; and other software engineers&#8217; salaries and communities at the <a href=\"http:\/\/events.php.gr.jp\/events\/show\/68\">40th Monthly PHP Study Meeting Kanto (Tokyo and surrounding area)<\/a> this month.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width:425px;text-align:left\" id=\"__ss_1026873\"><a style=\"font:14px Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;display:block;margin:12px 0 3px 0;text-decoration:underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/yandod\/20090214-phpstudy?type=powerpoint\" title=\"20090214 Phpstudy\">20090214 Phpstudy<\/a><object style=\"margin:0px\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/static.slideshare.net\/swf\/ssplayer2.swf?doc=20090214phpstudy-1234594869116973-3&#038;stripped_title=20090214-phpstudy\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"\/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:11px;font-family:tahoma,arial;height:26px;padding-top:2px;\">View more <a style=\"text-decoration:underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/\">presentations<\/a> from <a style=\"text-decoration:underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/yandod\">yandod<\/a>. (tags: <a style=\"text-decoration:underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/slideshare.net\/tag\/japan\">japan<\/a> <a style=\"text-decoration:underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/slideshare.net\/tag\/php\">php<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>I referred to some surveys in <a href=\"http:\/\/d.hatena.ne.jp\/yandod\/20090214\/1234596712\">my report[J]<\/a>.<br \/>\nAsial Inc. published <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phppro.jp\/article\/phpconference2008\/qa\/15\">a survey of Japanese PHP users[J]<\/a>, which is based on a questionnaire from the Japan PHP Conference (PHP is one of the most popular web languages in Japan).<br \/>\nThe survey results show a breakdown of the attendees&#8217; salaries.<\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\ntable.stats {  text-align: right; }\n<\/style>\n<table class=\"stats\" border=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>Salary (in USD)<\/th>\n<th># of answers<\/th>\n<th>Percent<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>less than $ 21,505<\/td>\n<td>13<\/td>\n<td>9.09%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>less than $ 32,258<\/td>\n<td>17<\/td>\n<td>11.89%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>less than $ 43,010<\/td>\n<td>37<\/td>\n<td>25.87%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>less than $ 53,763<\/td>\n<td>44<\/td>\n<td>30.77%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>less than $ 64,516<\/td>\n<td>11<\/td>\n<td>7.69%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>less than $ 75,268<\/td>\n<td>9<\/td>\n<td>6.29%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>less than $ 107,526<\/td>\n<td>9<\/td>\n<td>6.29%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>more than $ 107,526<\/td>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<td>2.10%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"3\">1USD=93JPY<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>As can be seen, quite a large portion of PHP engineers get paid under $54,446.<br \/>\nWorkport published <a href=\"http:\/\/www.workport.co.jp\/news\/news_090213.html\">a newsletter[J]<\/a>, which shows that the number of PHP jobs is high, ranked 4th following Java, C and C++, with a higher demand than other web scripting languages (Perl, Ruby, Python).<br \/>\nThe survey also shows average salary by programming language. The list of the top 10 does not include PHP.<\/p>\n<table class=\"stats\" border=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>Rank<\/th>\n<th>Language<\/th>\n<th>Avg. Salary (USD)<\/th>\n<th>Avg. Raise from Previous Year (USD)<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>C#<\/td>\n<td>$ 67,408<\/td>\n<td>$ 6,193<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td>C<\/td>\n<td>$ 59,172<\/td>\n<td>$ 1,534<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<td>COBOL<\/td>\n<td>$ 57,967<\/td>\n<td>$ 1,441<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<td>ASP.NET<\/td>\n<td>$ 61,000<\/td>\n<td>$ 1,432<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<td>VisualBASIC.NET<\/td>\n<td>$ 65,236<\/td>\n<td>$ 1,255<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<td>VBA<\/td>\n<td>$ 58,064<\/td>\n<td>$ 1,088<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>7<\/td>\n<td>RPG<\/td>\n<td>$ 56,537<\/td>\n<td>$ 753<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>8<\/td>\n<td>C++<\/td>\n<td>$ 59,817<\/td>\n<td>$ 725<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>9<\/td>\n<td>JavaScript<\/td>\n<td>$ 57,935<\/td>\n<td>$ 585<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>10<\/td>\n<td>JAVA<\/td>\n<td>$ 59,892<\/td>\n<td>$ 46<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"4\">1USD=93JPY<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Average salary and pay raise, by programming language<br \/>\nThe average salary of PHP engineers shown in the first survey is not as high as those using the above 10 languages, which I think many PHP programmers recognize.<br \/>\nThere are many PHP community activities such as meetup events almost every week, which generate a lot of fun and enjoyment, but I think these software engineers also have to pursue financial rewards.<br \/>\nA video of my presentation is below.<br \/>\n<object id=\"otv_o_375511\" height=\"320\" width=\"400\"  classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\"><param value=\"http:\/\/www.ustream.tv\/flash\/video\/1151795\" name=\"movie\" \/><param value=\"true\" name=\"allowFullScreen\" \/><param value=\"always\" name=\"allowScriptAccess\" \/><param value=\"transparent\" name=\"wmode\" \/><param value=\"viewcount=true&amp;autoplay=false&amp;brand=embed&amp;\" name=\"flashvars\" \/><\/object><br \/>\n(proofread by Sean O&#8217;Hagan)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Asiajin readers, I, Yusuke ANDO (aka yandod), was asked by Asiajin to write about my presentation on PHP developers&#8217; and other software engineers&#8217; salaries and communities at the 40th Monthly PHP Study Meeting Kanto (Tokyo and surrounding area) this month. 20090214 Phpstudy View more presentations from yandod. (tags: japan php) I referred to some&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/engineers-salary-and-life-in-japan-from-php-study-meeting\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Engineers Salary and Life in Japan &#8211; from PHP Study Meeting<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,17],"tags":[1074,2872,2974,3191],"class_list":["post-2378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-japan","tag-engineer","tag-php","tag-programming-language","tag-salary","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}