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https://www.glassdoor.co.uk/Salaries/cobol-programmer-salary-SRCH_KO0,16.htm https://www.glassdoor.co.uk/Salaries/cobol-programmer-salary... If it's so valuabl
by buro9 3y ago
https://www.glassdoor.co.uk/Salaries/cobol-programmer-salary-SRCH_KO0,16.htm https://www.glassdoor.co.uk/Salaries/cobol-programmer-salary...
If it's so valuable to the industry that they have good people who know it, that should surely be reflected in the salary / comp for roles... And if that were high, people would learn it, but it's not high, it's arguably worse than just learning a little JavaScript
- halfdan 3y agoYou’re looking at salaries for COBOL programmers in the UK which is a small subset of an already small market.
- IshKebab 3y agoI've checked in America before and came to the same conclusion. There's an idea that COBOL programming pays vastly more than other languages, but it's just a myth. It might pay a little more, but more like 20% more. Certainly not enough to warrant a COBOL career. And I'm sure some consultants can earn vast sums fixing old COBOL code, but that's just because they're consultants. Consultants always earn vast sums.
- cowsandmilk 3y ago> Certainly not enough to warrant a COBOL career. I don't understand why people are claiming this sets your career to only ever write COBOL. I know plenty of people who started their careers with perl, but have been Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, Go, or Rust programmers at different points as their careers progressed. Someone overseeing a project migrating a COBOL monolith over time to a set of decoupled services in some other language would easily have a strong story for the timeless need of improving application architecture.
- aitchnyu 3y agoIndian companies take fresh graduates and train them into mainframe devs. I was a little sceptical about shrinking pool of highly paid people.