That actually gets back to my original point.<p>I have a friend who also uses Python as part of his job, but he&#x27;s a hedge fund manager. Although we&#x27;re both ostensibly programmers, there is no way we&#x27;d be able to successfully do each others jobs, at least not without several years of training. Nor do I think that just knowing Python makes me qualified to be a professional biologist, astronomer, filmmaker, or whatever else people are using it for these days.<p>That&#x27;s why I think it&#x27;s weird to ask how much a programmer should make, since in most cases it&#x27;s actually the analyst part of the job that determines how much value you&#x27;re able to create.