[danielweber]

How does "big bucks" compare to the "big bucks" in other computer specialties, like security?

There's this thing I wish existed but AFAIK doesn't: a guide that shows computer people the relative salaries of a bunch of different specialties. So people who have one specialty but would enjoy something else can see what the salaries are like.

Glassdoor is a very rough start on this.

[delluminatus]

I have no idea. All I meant to imply there was that they are highly valued by the companies that contract them, because they typically are called in as a last resort when the organization's reporting situation has degenerated to being basically unusable.