These are the highest paying programming languages you should learn, ranked by salary

Computer programming has quickly become one of the most lucrative industries in the United States. In fact, the average salary for a computer programmer just hit an all-time high as it approaches $100,000. But, there are some languages and skill sets that are more valuable than others, and Quartz has compiled some data to break down these differences.

Quartz's Max Nisen pulled out some figures on the most valuable programming languages based on a larger study from the Brokings Institution that was published in July.

Based on that data, here are programming languages listed next to their average annual salary from highest to lowest:

1. Ruby on Rails - $109,460

2. Objective C - $108,225

3. Python - $100,717

4. JAVA - $94,908

5. C++ - $93,502

6. JavaScript - $91,461

7. C - $90,134

8. R- $90,055

9. C# - $89,074

10. Visual Basic - $85,962

11. SQL - $85,511

12. PERL - $82,513

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