[sgh]

Let's not kid ourselves, project managers will always have better pay than developers. At most we can say that developers now have pay that is much better than before.

Unless one has real passion in technical work, it's better not to do it. 

BTW, what language you used to do your development?

If you are doing IT recruitment you would know some employers look for specialized software developer and pay top dollars even higher than project manager. They do exist as of currently 10k developer role are around until recent tech layoff frenzy.

What language you want to know wow long list. Lotus Notes Lotus Script Visual Basic Visual C++ plain C C++ Java Python oracle plsql mssql transact SQL postgresql bash script Perl etc some obscure I forget. I am forced to learn as I am usually doing maintenance instead of create from scratch so need learn a lot else cannot do maintenance for bug fixes and enhancement request.

Now you know why locals do not want to specialise in software development they need to keep learning and then produce working program for employers compared to say project manager manning Java Python etc no big diff, timeline budget resources allocation etc tasks do not change drastically due to different programming language used for the IT projects.