It actually can pay pretty well. It's not Silicon Valley money, but it's around Milwaukee bigco CRUD code monkey money. I know a few liberal arts graduates that were working dead-end jobs who went back for the MLIS mainly for the money.
Being a technologist for libraries sounds awful, though. They deal all day w/locked-down journals, proprietary databases, the MARC formats, and various systems from the 60s - and I'd need more than I make now to work with that crap.
Do not confuse nostalgia for reveration. The old programming systems are indeed quaint, and should be preserved, but not used. There's a reason we've moved on.
Being a technologist for libraries sounds awful, though. They deal all day w/locked-down journals, proprietary databases, the MARC formats, and various systems from the 60s - and I'd need more than I make now to work with that crap.