No, I am a consultant software engineer (finance, simulations). Also a researcher, but I am not getting paid in bitcoins from my university... yet. There is a (relatively) small, but growing international Bitcoin services economy, without much of red tape and prohibitive regulations concerning hiring people globally.
If you work for e.g. Coinbase, you can opt in to be compensated in Bitcoin. If you are in the business of writing software for crypto exchanges (like myself), this is also kind of a default option.