Hello,

I have realized this article during a conversation about Wordpress jobs. That conversation started very natural way since I do own a WordPress job site.

So, I can say that I am very into valuation and pricing of developers, programmers, designers and engineers.

Plus, me myself is a technical person in my thirties that I have seen a lot of systems with a lot of different valuation schemes and pricing.

Plus to plus, I do become customer time to time to shape up my WordPress sites, so I pay for WordPress work.

Before writing this comment I have checked out IT Jobs Watch UK site to check out Cobol.

From site, I have got Programming Languages list and ordered the list by "Average Salary".
(Descending order)

I was looking for Cobol and PHP to compare them. To compare them NOT in terms of their ability and NOT in terms of their ecosystem and purpose.

To compare them to see how much these languages' programmers earn.

Cobol is about £50K. PHP is about £38K.

Let me explain first why I do point out especially;
It is because I knew that Cobol was going to beat PHP in terms of programmers' salary/valuation.

The list that I take is 4 page list and PHP is in even the 4th page, which is last page. Quite informative to give an idea about my point.

You will see where Cobol is used if you check out the financial applications, especially legacy financial applications.

You can do same thing for PHP as well.

Yet another, JAVA is about £49K that is closer to Cobol.

These are the numbers.

And my point is; people value things more if they really need it and if there is no many alternatives.

Say for example I am a manager in a finance company like bank, I wouldn't/couldn't negotiate much if I really need a competent Cobol developer to migrate/port loads loads Cobol applications to JAVA.
Or debug a very problematic place in the code base. Or whatsoever work that sort of.

You can have a five page web site even with MS Front Page. So, in this environment and situation, valuation and pricing mix up.

And, the needing people is pretty much innocent since they are in same shoes as we do that they do their best to feed their families.

Greetings,

Mehmet.
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