Have you seen/experienced being multilingual as unlocking higher levels of compensation?
I'm a software engineer at a fintech company on a HENRY salary that only speaks English. I've recently started to learn Arabic and want to start learning Mandarin too at some point. These things take up time that could be spent working on outside projects or stuff more directly related to my actual core skills though, which led me to wonder: people in other fields e.g. tech consulting, tech sales, PE - have you seen being multilingual unlock opportunities for higher compensation? Is it a skill that businesses pay a premium for in the market?
And what do you think about that for the future? I had a half baked thought that as we get a proliferation of auto translation hardware, being able to converse without that technology might make one more personable and could actually be uniquely valuable eventually. Alternatively (and perhaps more likely) it could just become worthless economically.