Stack Overflow Annual User Survey Results

I'm a little floored by the average compensation of StackOverflow users. 70% report being in the game more than 6 years, but only 5% are making more than $75/hr ($150k/year).<p>I understand that the numbers are a bit skewed by people in countries with lower costs of living, but seriously, a developer in the 'states who can code his way out of a paper bag shouldn't be taking a job for $60k a year. Yet it looks like a lot of people are settling for them.<p>Guys, you gotta stand up for yourselves.

It seems that the survey was only announced on the stackoverflow blog (I am a SO regular and haven't noticed any news about it.) This might have skewed the results a bit.<p>Update: I have found out they ran a banner on SO to promote it, so my concern becomes less valid. (Not totally invalid, advertising the survey on the blog might still have skewed the statistics towards people who read the SO blog, which might be a little different demographics than the general SO population.)

Actually what strikes me the most interesting is the fact that Stack's largest audience is still from the US.<p>I would think that by now SO would see (much) more international traffic.

The selection of answers for #9 ("What is your involvement in purchasing?") were incredibly well formulated — one of the best survey questions I've ever seen.

Question 14 is quite telling - 66%+ are using Windows :/<p>I'd think that the % here would be significantly less.

I don't use SO very much, but this poll looks interesting.<p>The most interesting thing (not disclosed in the results) is what people wrote for "other (please specify)" in the question "13. Which languages are you proficient in?"