In my experience, the answer is sadly no. I've lost many jobs due to my wanting to push a culture of craftsmanship over sloppy hacks, design patterns over procedural code written as object-oriented, and embracing new technology over staying with obsolete legacy tech. Note that I don't regret those choices, but the reality is that very few of our developer brethren know or care about craftsmanship; I dare say that there are many more of us who could care less about the "right" way to write software, or are even completely ignorant that there are better ways than the way they've done it for years. Of course, I try to write my own code with craftsmanship in mind but it's largely a futile effort, and often when you have code that follows no craftsmanship whatsoever trying to add even a little bit is painful. Even the jobs I have kept, I've been relegated to minor bug fixes instead of working on new things (because were I assigned to new development, I would try to introduce my "radical ideas" i.e. craftsmanship), to the point where I eventually get fed up/bored and look for another company in the hopes of finding one that understands craftsmanship.
I look at and envy the people who have gotten into environments where they aren't the only person who knows about software craftsmanship, or the SOLID principles, or ORMS/IoC/SOC/etc, because they don't have to fight uphill battles trying to tell people that no, it's bad to lump all your functions in one gigantic class that might as well be a VB6 Module; it's bad to have a code file that has a method that goes on for a thousand lines; it's bad to put all your logic in the event handler of a button. They don't have to risk getting fired because you keep trying to educate your team about new and better ways of doing things; ways that will improve the longevity and maintainability of the codebase, only to be met with confused looks or dismissal because you're the only person who even knows why that is a good thing, or you are the only person who subscribes to technical blogs/podcasts to improve yourself.
In six years working as a software developer, I've had exactly one job out of six or so companies that actually cared about craftsmanship. Every other place didn't know or even understand the benefits - trying to explain things to the others on the team got this strange "Wha...?" kind of look, as though they didn't understand anything I was saying. The companies would rather have kept the slothful developers that didn't improve anything and refused to even be aware in passing of anything new, than encourage proper development techniques that would facilitate maintenance long-term, instead they are all too willing to sacrifice long-term for the short-term. Every single time.
To summarize: Craftsmanship will only pay off if the whole team embraces it. If one person embraces craftsmanship and the others don't know what it entails, it won't pay off at all and will probably hurt you.
ADDENDUM
Just to prove my point, I wrote this in June 2011. I was let go as a developer at the company I was working at in July '12 for exactly the reasons stated here: Over that 13 month period, I was trying to push us towards using some semblance of craftsmanship instead of hacking out crap that was unmaintainable (to give an example we were trying to sell our internal CRM software to other companies, when it could barely support the 70 or so users we had internally and had to be restarted several times per day due to crashing). A "senior" dev thwarted my efforts each and every step of the way and the non-technical CTO always sided with him despite telling me in person that good quality was a goal, and it culminated with me being brought into the conference room with the CTO and HR to be told that my development skills were "not [my] strong point" and the company wanted to go in a different direction than the one I was trying to push (i.e. an environment with things such as code reviews and code conventions and craftsmanship), and that my services there were no longer required.
It took me nearly 5 months to find another job, and that job doesn't do any development at all beyond some SQL; I work with proprietary applications all day long, and my will and desire to ever do development again is all but gone because I'm tired of scenarios like the above all the time. I recently had two job interviews where I wasn't considered for the position afterwards (the old "We've gone with another candidate" excuse) because, I think, the companies felt that I wouldn't be on board with "their vision of the software" largely, in part, to my enthusiasm in wanting to follow good design principles and adhere to software craftsmanship.
So to reiterate what I stated over two years ago: In most cases, at least from my experience, craftsmanship will get you fired or disqualified from being hired if nobody else gives a damn about it, and most companies don't give a damn about it; most companies don't even know what it is. Every time I've mentioned good design or things like ORMs or the SOLID principles or anything like that, I'm used to seeing blank stares and this sinking feeling that I've just shot myself in the foot because the guy interviewing me has zero clue what these things are. Sadly, that sinking feeling has proved to be correct each and every time.
