>COBOL devs are a specialized niche these days and they get paid accordingly. Tell that to all the people in outsourcing Firms (e.g. Infosys) who end up coming

>COBOL devs are a specialized niche these days and they get paid accordingly. Tell that to all the people in outsourcing Firms (e.g. Infosys) who end up coming to the US from India to work on COBOL Mainframes as contractors. The large companies hiring those outsourcing companies are doing that because they don't want to pay top dollar for a COBOL devs. I don't think they even want to deal with evaluating and hiring COBOL Devs. I know somebody who was in that situation. Was paid decently, but nothing special you couldn't get from any other Dev job.