Here’s a dirty little secret: time and again, some of the top-paying tech jobs are for skills that haven’t been cool in decades.
The programming languages with the largest increase in median salary in Stack Overflow’s “2022 Developer Survey” were COBOL and Delphi, rising to $75,592 and $63,984 — up 44% and 37% — respectively. Two of the hottest languages, Dart and Rust, saw some of the highest and lowest changes in salaries, in yet another sign that adoption trends and developer pay are not always in alignment.
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