It depends where you are in your career, but I definitely think that we're headed into a recession that will be tough for early-career folks. The amount of valu

It depends where you are in your career, but I definitely think that we're headed into a recession that will be tough for early-career folks. The amount of value that experienced ops and appdev hands can provide isn't going down, so their salaries shouldn't. BUT I think we're looking at a downward trend in the amount of value a new CS grad can provide to most businesses (besides maybe bargain-basement body shop type operations like CapGemini and friends). I think (IOW no data to support this, but I'd be interested in seeing it if anyone has some) this trend has been ongoing for a while now but was kind of papered over by overhiring (some say "talent hoarding") caused by low interest rates. This is all speculation of course, but I think things will be harder for a new CS grad today -- at least for a while -- but it will still probably be a fulfilling, not-impoverishing career if you can get started. Unfortunately, I think the ship has sailed on nontraditional entrants to the tech job market (folks like me who never got a CS degree at all). Established professionals are probably in a pretty good spot and, with a pipeline issue (fewer young people able to enter the field), their value may even increase.