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0 pointsmdip3y ago0 comments

After participating in the hiring of an SAP developer I realized -- financially speaking, anyway -- that I picked the wrong thing to specialize in.

The first time we brought in someone truly experienced in SAP development, we paid him more than any other developer on staff[0]. I appreciate the different take on SAP. Can I ask -- is it still as lucrative to be an SAP developer?

[0] This was a global multi-national telecom who ran an in-house developed audio conferencing service (written entirely in C++, interacting with a lot of hardware) ... the skillset of some of our devs was incredible, which made this all the more surprising.

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NamTaf3y ago

SAP developers aren't paid because they're more talented than other developers, they're paid because the niche in which they're deeply embedded extracts extreme business value.

It may take just as much talent to write interfaces for obscure audio hardware and deal with janky bluetooth edge cases, but that doesn't mint the same $$$$ as a SAP guru who refactors a business process to be more efficient.

_glass3y ago

Depends what you're comparing it to. Even in Germany it's a niche skill set, that has a higher payment than the average Java guy, but with enough skills you can get paid the same for any specialization, e.g. security, cloud-computing. I changed to solution architect recently, which is a bit removed from SAP work itself.

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