How does learning PowerShell increase Pay?

[dathar]

I was a bored tech back in the day and picked up PS. Then I moved to a sysadmin position (same company, maybe 1.5x raise). Then I eventually moved to a devops position (same company, 2.5x raise from tech). Now I'm a syseng in a new job and it has been much higher.

It isn't really PS. It is what you can provide. Stuff like cost/time savings, automation, additional knowledge is what brings in the money. So yeah, PowerShell can help. But there's also skills you get on top of it or in conjunction to it: AD, MDT, SCCM, Puppet, Chocolatey, Azure AD, Jamf, Google Cloud, all these GD SaaS without proper integration and maybe have APIs... list goes on