> I still don't see jobs paying a tc of 250k+ for rust jobs. Those exist for cpp

They are out there, though the "in Rust" is part of the footnote usually.

I interviewed recently for a 350k+ job involving rust and the odd thing about it was that I'm an okay C++ programmer, but I'm about as good as the average rust programmer because it's not been popular for that long.

Nobody is asking for a decade+ experience on rust, only that you don't run away from it when you hit compilation fights with the borrow checker.

This is not just about Rust though, but because I'm a second systems sort of engineer who can go in replace an aging C++ platform slowly by rewriting bits of it or modularizing it as we go. And the pay matches how badly they want to tear out the tech debt in the rewrite pass (also how horrible it will be for the first 8-10 months).

COBOL programming also pays good money. It's usually when a language becomes "legacy" that pay starts rising, because the supply of interested programmers starts drying up.

I’m literally hiring 4 of them right now. Hit me up if you’re interested.

COBOL must be the best language in the world if we judge by avg pay

Pinch your nose and add "web3" to those search terms.