[Zitrax]

Any idea why salaries for C/C++ developers seem to be way below average in these stats?

[coffeeaddicted]

Least paid developer type is game development. And c++ is commonly used there.

[bigcostooge]

International responses skew the salary data and make it useless.

[gota]

This is true. It always feels weird answering these kinds of questions living outside of the US. You can easily have a salary that is several times the average of your country (I'm talking like 20x) and still make about half of what you'd make in the US, when shown in USD.

[fauigerzigerk]

C++ is consistently less well paid than Java in the US and in the UK.

[taway_1212]

C/C++ are basically languages used only for technical products, while Java/web is used internally by pretty much every large company on Earth. This puts immense pressure on salaries.