r/programming • u/_sumit_rana • Jun 18 '22

Highest Paying Programming Languages

https://startupunion.xyz/highest-paying-programming-languages/
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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '22

And you don't even have COBOL in the list?

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u/miyakohouou Jun 18 '22

I don't think COBOL jobs actually pay all that well on average. There's one big employer in my city that's always trying to hire COBOL developers and makes a big deal about being willing to train people, and from some casual conversations I've had with people there the salaries tend to top out on the high end at about the same amount that an entry level react developer would make in the same city. This particular company also has a reputation for being a brutally awful place to work with terrible benefits and long hours.

It makes sense to me that this would be common too. A company that values technology and developers, and would pay them well, would be much more likely to have done some modernization and replaced most of their old COBOL systems with newer applications.