More than 1.1 million people filed for unemployment last week, per the Labor Department's most recent report. This blew past economists' predictions of jobless claims under 1 million that would signal economic recovery.
Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the US in March, more than 22 million people have lost their jobs and 13 million remain jobless, per the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
If you recently lost your job, or just want to learn something new, consider learning what the job site Indeed says is 2020's most in-demand skill: coding.
Analysts at the site combed through its database to find the best jobs of the year based on three factors: average pay, the job title's growth on the site over the past three years, and the number of postings for the job for every one million total listings on the site.
The most promising job was software architect, the person who makes high-level decisions about the design and standard of code used in a platform. In second place was a full-stack developer, or someone who has the complete coding skills to make a platform.
While some hiring managers don't require a job applicant know a specific coding language (the coding skills are often transferable across languages), it does help to know which languages are associated with the highest-paying jobs.
HackerRank, a tech company that focuses on competitive programming challenges for both programmers and recruiters, surveyed over 116,000 software developers and students to figure out what coding languages were associated with the highest pay worldwide.
Below is the complete list of languages, along with how they compare to the salary of the average developer, which according to HackerRank's survey is $54,491.
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