COBOL programmers have some of the highest salaries of any other languages specialized programmers, but I don’t know if that is due to rarity of COBOL programmers, the fact that those jobs are all government or financial institution employed, or because the average experience for them is 58 years?
The Stackoverflow developer survey debunks this myth, year after year. Not only do COBOL developers make about the middle of the pack, they sit at an average of 18 YOE which makes absolute bank in other stacks
https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#section-salary-salary-and-experience-by-language
Programming salaries are so inconsistent and these salaries by language become so meaningless.
My buddy who works in Google makes 600k but can also call himself a Typescript developer. I’m a dept lead but I’ve spent the past few months fixing business critical code, so depending on how the question is asked, id look like a overpriced jQuery/Angular/bash developer.
Man I wish our politicians had as much tech savvy as these ancient COBOL programmers.
Well, I guess they will, once these folks retire and start running for president.
they’re more popular than both candidates
Well, I guess they will, once these folks retire and start running for president.
Lol, we all wish.
Fr tho what happens when all the COBOL programmers die off?
Like all old systems, do nothing and pray it doesn’t shit itself.
There are people learning Latin in case it comes back. COBOL isn’t that much older
too be fair I studied Latin at school 40 years ago so this tracks
We found a COBOL programmer in the wild!
I’d ask you to retire and finally give a young person a chance, but none of them want to wait for floppy drives to load.
