Even smaller towns in California have insane rent prices. If it's on the coast it's almost guaranteed it's higher COL than even some big cities in the middle of the country. And all the beachfront property is people's vacation homes and airbnb shit.
Yeah, even middle-tier systems admin types can approach that range (80k is more typical, higher if you manage to sell yourself as DevOps), and it's higher in larger cities/tech hubs (e.g., Boston, Atlanta, NYC), albeit with worse cost of living.
Senior-level niche software dev positions usually pay absurdly well; 150-200k is not unheard of for things like, say, COBOL finance software maintenance, legacy Java EE stuff that hasn't been migrated off JEE2 or whatever, and vendor-specific ERP shit, although those tend to be on a contract basis while the company in question brings you on to get them the hell off of an expensive-ass outdated legacy platform.
Those old-ass billing and finance systems just refuse to die. And, weirdly enough, the COBOL spec keeps getting updated by Fujitsu and IBM -- they added classes and objects back in 2002, so there's at least some semblance of potential for (non-module-bullshit) code reuse and unit testability. But it's still goddamned fucking COBOL. And if you're maintaining a legacy COBOL system, you'll be lucky if they've even moved off of COBOL-85 yet, since that code usually stays untouched for decades.
Some coders, supposedly.
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I live in a shitty midwestern state and most rent is above $800.
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Even smaller towns in California have insane rent prices. If it's on the coast it's almost guaranteed it's higher COL than even some big cities in the middle of the country. And all the beachfront property is people's vacation homes and airbnb shit.
Yeah, even middle-tier systems admin types can approach that range (80k is more typical, higher if you manage to sell yourself as DevOps), and it's higher in larger cities/tech hubs (e.g., Boston, Atlanta, NYC), albeit with worse cost of living.
Senior-level niche software dev positions usually pay absurdly well; 150-200k is not unheard of for things like, say, COBOL finance software maintenance, legacy Java EE stuff that hasn't been migrated off JEE2 or whatever, and vendor-specific ERP shit, although those tend to be on a contract basis while the company in question brings you on to get them the hell off of an expensive-ass outdated legacy platform.
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Pretty much, but hey, if it's a 9-5 with no overtime expectations, you can support a surprisingly expensive
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COBOL in c.e. 2020
Those old-ass billing and finance systems just refuse to die. And, weirdly enough, the COBOL spec keeps getting updated by Fujitsu and IBM -- they added classes and objects back in 2002, so there's at least some semblance of potential for (non-module-bullshit) code reuse and unit testability. But it's still goddamned fucking COBOL. And if you're maintaining a legacy COBOL system, you'll be lucky if they've even moved off of COBOL-85 yet, since that code usually stays untouched for decades.