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Why would you want to? There's a lot of smoke and noise made about how companies are desperate for COBOL developers because the old ones are retiring or dying
by Blackthorn 11y ago
Why would you want to?
There's a lot of smoke and noise made about how companies are desperate for COBOL developers because the old ones are retiring or dying blah blah blah, but I've never seen actual good salaries to back it up. And to add insult to injury, you're unlikely to be able to take the skills you've learned to your next job when you inevitably change jobs.
- Gaessaki 11y agoI suppose you're right. After going through some publicly available COBOL salaries in Canada, it seems the salaries for senior COBOL positions were about what I was able to ask for as a junior frontend developer (50-60$/h CAD). I think I would primarily consider a short stint for the heck of it. Maybe some short term contracts to see what it's like.
- brobinson 11y agoWhat kind of salaries have you seen? I've read that most of the companies still using COBOL are banks, insurance companies, etc. They seem like the companies, if any, that could provide really compelling salaries for something with allegedly high demand and increasingly small supply.