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[–] [email protected] 36 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

The Stackoverflow developer survey debunks this myth, year after year. Not only do COBOL developers make about the middle of the pack, they sit at an average of 18 YOE which makes absolute bank in other stacks

https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#section-salary-salary-and-experience-by-language

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Programming salaries are so inconsistent and these salaries by language become so meaningless.

My buddy who works in Google makes 600k but can also call himself a Typescript developer. I'm a dept lead but I've spent the past few months fixing business critical code, so depending on how the question is asked, id look like a overpriced jQuery/Angular/bash developer.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is true, but the Stackoverflow datapoint was the only quantitative one I could think of. Anecdotally, I see senior COBOL developers making less than juniors but still thinking they're paid lots

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Oh absolutely!

[–] eran_morad 4 points 4 months ago

Cheezus. Those salaries are lower than i expected to see.