[rt2016]

I was just about to say the same thing but you beat me to it. :) I think the choice of language is much less important than what you're doing. Even a "non-sexy" (but incredibly important) job like build/deployment engineer writing mostly shell scripts and Python automation could net you a 200k+ income

[servlate]

From all the replies here, it seems all the high paying jobs revolve around web development, be it Python or Java.