Not only is it really useful for salary negotiations, but there are also all sorts of fun comparisons you can run. There are many samples on the site, but I tweaked one a bit to get this chart:
(scroll way down, something is wrong with the code in the chart, and I'm still tweaking it to find out what)
Arabic $93,000 | |
Gaelic $54,000 | |
Sign Language $40,000 | |
Hindi $35,000 | |
Farsi $35,000 | |
Japanese $33,000 | |
Chinese $33,000 | |
English $29,000 | |
French $29,000 | |
Spanish $28,000 | |
Russian $27,000 | |
Italian $26,000 |
Arabic might be a political fad, so that bubble might burst in the next decade or so. But who wants to learn Gaelic?
This is a graph illustrating salary premiums for bilingual candidates? Or just average salaries for speakers of said languages? We need some more info.
ReplyDeleteGaelic speaking has got to be such a small number of people that it has sampling bias, only professors of Irish studies and people with the leisure time to learn a hobby language know Gaelic.
I'm surprised that Chinese isn't higher.
ok I get it now.
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Lets start a blog about learning arabic to get rich!