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Do COBOL programmers really get paid that much? I have more than 10 years of experience with COBOL, and I've left it long time ago because I hated the language. But now I wonder where could I find some of those well paid COBOL jobs (and of course - remote)?

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Not from the evidence available on glassdoor and whatnot. Which makes sense, if job-hopping is the way to level up one's salary, then getting a job where there's like one or two employers in a region is going to keep your salary at the same level.

Even if you got a job paying in the 90th percentile in 2010, you'd have a pretty average salary now if you received the standard big corp 2% annual raise given that market adjustments have been in the 8-12% pa range.

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