And at such low pay, too: > As recently as this week, jobs boards such as Indeed and Dice.com listed hundreds or in some cases thousands of openings for mainfr

And at such low pay, too: > As recently as this week, jobs boards such as Indeed and Dice.com listed hundreds or in some cases thousands of openings for mainframe positions at all levels. Advertised pay ranges from $30 to $35 an hour for a junior mainframe developer to well over $150,000 a year for a mainframe database administration manager. If you are talented and patient enough to do software archeology which will affect millions of people, I think you can make (a lot) more elsewhere.