Why PHP Developers Are Paid Less
Companies like PHP.
It's also a great choice for beginners and smaller companies who don't have the budget or the time to invest in learning new languages. PHP is easy to learn, easy to deploy, easy to maintain, easy to scale, and even easier to secure. It doesn't require much maintenance once it's been set up—just keep an eye on your server logs and ensure that nothing bad happens when people visit your site or try out some code samples in their browser console.
There are plenty of other reasons why PHP is so popular: it's fast enough for most use cases; it has a long history of proven stability; there are tons of open-source frameworks available; there are plenty of hosting providers willing to host your site on their servers (meaning you don't have do any server administration); its syntax is similar enough that learning HTML5 after studying PHP will be no problem at all...
Companies do not need to pay more for PHP devs.
Companies that use PHP can get a lot of developers for cheap, so they don’t necessarily need to pay more for them.
PHP is one of the most popular web programming languages in use today, making it easy for companies to find workers who know it.
PHP is also very easy to learn and use; you can get started with PHP in just a few hours or days (depending on your background), while other languages like Java require years of study before you can be productive.
Because PHP is easy and accessible, many people have learned how to write some code but aren’t necessarily experts at their craft—which means they might not produce the best work possible or meet all the requirements that an employer requires from its employees. This could mean that companies may not have much incentive to pay higher salaries because they feel like they won't receive better results than if they hire someone new who doesn't know much about PHP already!
The supply and demand equation goes like this:
The supply and demand equation goes like this:
High supply, low demand = lower pay;
Low supply, high demand = higher pay.
This isn’t always true but it is often true enough to cause problems for PHP developers. The problem with the PHP community is that there are too many people who know how to write code for the number of companies that need developers.#ENDWRITE
PHP is easier to learn.
PHP is a great language to start with. It's easy to learn and you can find lots of resources online that will help you get up to speed quickly. Because PHP is easier to learn than other languages like C++, fewer people know it (on average), which means there are fewer developers competing for jobs than there would be if more companies were looking for expert C++ programmers versus novice PHP developers.
PHP is not popular among programmers.
The fact is, PHP is not as popular among programmers as other languages. It's used by a lot more people than you might expect—over 80 million websites according to W3Techs—but it doesn't have the prestige of Java, C++ or Python in the same way JavaScript does (JavaScript is hugely popular and will likely continue to be so).
PHP also lacks some of the features that other popular languages offer (e.g. static typing). This makes it harder for programmers to get started with developing applications in PHP and contributes further to its lack of popularity among developers who are serious about their careers.
Freelancers can’t charge high rates because they are newer to the game.
As I’m sure you’ve noticed, the average hourly rates for PHP developers are lower than those of other programming languages. We can start to understand why this is when we think about how freelancers work.
As a general rule, freelancers charge less than employees, because they're not as experienced or have no track record in the industry yet. The same is true for PHP developers who've only been working on their own for a short time—they don't have portfolios or client references to prove that they're good at their job. They don't have company names either; many freelance projects are done by individual contractors instead of being under the umbrella of one larger entity (like an agency).
PHP is not as fun to work with.
PHP is not as fun to work with.
It's not a cool language to work with. It's not a good language to build applications with, and it doesn’t have a lot of the benefits that other languages have, like static typing or type inference (which means you don’t have to declare your types). If you look at how much time it takes for people to get up to speed on these new languages, they're often quite quick—you can learn Ruby or Python pretty quickly compared to PHP because they're easier and cleaner languages in some sense.
At the end of the day, it's about what you want to do, not about how much money you make.
At the end of the day, it's about what you want to do, not about how much money you make. If you're passionate about software development and have a lot of experience under your belt, then PHP is not a bad place to be. Sure it makes more sense to use Python if you want to work in AI and machine learning but that doesn't mean PHP developers can't still make great tools for their clients and help them build their businesses in the process.
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