https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#technology-top-paying-technologies

and see that clojure is the top paying tech with almost double the pay from java.

But when looking for clojure job ads I see very few posts (at least in Europe) and TBH most of them don't seem the high-pay shops kind.

Also weird that the top five is dominated by functional languages which again seem to be a small minority in job ads.

Some possible explanations:

1. these roles are within FAANGs (and they're not advertised as such but under more generic postings)

2. these roles are mostly independent consultants (and consequently these numbers are not too relevant if you are in a payroll)

3. because these roles are few and far between they compete for a small pool of applicants thus raising the wages (although the number of applicants don't exactly show a lack of candidates)

4. A lot of these are simply outliers in the sense that the data have not been normalized (i.e. 2 people that do clojure indeed earn that much but the whole sample is 10000 people).

How do you interpret these numbers? Do they agree with your experience?