[maxharris]

If you're still working at a place that still maintains COBOL code, you should quit and come back as a much better paid contractor. Don't waste your retirement doing that for less than a few hundred bucks an hour.

And if you're a young person, don't waste your youth on the dead-ends of the past. You can make a million bucks in a year if you're really good at all that AI stuff!

[vajrabum]

I just peeked at Linked-in and searched on COBOL. They have a thousand or so COBOL listings. The contract ones seem to run about $60/hr and the salaried at $60k-$80k. Not terrible for some locations but also not what I'd call a gold rush either.