Re:Western civilization runs on the mainframe
by JanezStupar on Monday August 02, 2010 @12:27PM
(#1568067)
Well there is a certain "wall" that employers need to climb.
For .NET the "wall" is 30-50k $. For COBOL the "wall" seems to be 50k$ + (I'm conservative about this estimate on purpose). So beyond this "fair" compensation for ones troubles, the pay doesn't scale anymore.
So It's not that people wouldn't want to work with COBOL or perceive It as sexy - It's just that the "sexiness" point is a couple of 10's of thousands of dollars higher then for other tech.
For .NET the "wall" is 30-50k $. For COBOL the "wall" seems to be 50k$ + (I'm conservative about this estimate on purpose). So beyond this "fair" compensation for ones troubles, the pay doesn't scale anymore.
So It's not that people wouldn't want to work with COBOL or perceive It as sexy - It's just that the "sexiness" point is a couple of 10's of thousands of dollars higher then for other tech.