[Info-vax] Licenses on VAX/VMS 4.0/4.1 source code listing scans

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 12/11/2021 1:40 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 12/11/21 11:51 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> If there were then the salaries for Cobol programmer would
>> sky rocket.
> 
> COBOL programmers have already been receiving 6 figure salaries.
> the biggest reason for the lack of publicly viewable job offerings
> has more to do with job stability than lack of jobs.
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------
> 
> Defense Finance and Accounting Service
> 
> Salary
> $92,914 - $120,789 per year
> 
> "Use Integrated Database Management System (IDMS), Common Business
> Oriented Language (COBOL), and Job Control Language (JCL) in a
> mainframe environment to design software for Payroll Systems used
> by the Defense Finance and Accounting Service."
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------
> 
> This announcement or similar ones has been running almost constantly
> for as long as I have been following the the business.  More than 20
> years.

The above snippet does not say whether it is 0/5/10/20 years of
experienced they are looking for or whether it is in New York/Boston
/Seattle/San Francisco/Mountain View or Kansas/Arkansas
/Missouri/Alabama they are looking

So it is hard to say whether it is a great salary or a
crap salary.

But it is not a sky rocket salary.

>> It has not.
> 
> Most of the places that employ COBOL programmers do not make salary
> information available.  Some take this to mean they don't pay. One
> does not necessarily equate to the other.

Well - you just confirmed that it has not.

Arne