Programmers Who Use Spaces Earn More Money Than Those Who Use Tabs

Spaces versus Tabs: Who earns more?

But, according to an early analysis of the raw data from the Stack Overflow 2017, the programmers who use spaces make more money than tabs-using coders.

According to the results of this spaces versus tabs analysis that covered 28,657 respondents, 40.7% people used tabs and 41.8% people used spaces. The number of people using both was 17.5%. Out of them, 12,426 people provided their salary.

The median salary of the developers who used spaces was $59,140. Surprisingly, this number for tabs developer was $43,750, i.e., 8.6% lower salary.

Stack’s analytical model also concluded that using spaces raises the salary equivalent to extra 2.4 years of experience.

Here’s are some graphs showing the salary differences between developers within United States, India, United Kingdom, Germany, and Canada. You can see that effect is smaller in European countries and larger in India. However, it isn’t a single factor.