> I don't entirely understand, embedded software developers tend to get paid far below similarly-senior desktop, mobile, or web developers I disagree. At my wo

> I don't entirely understand, embedded software developers tend to get paid far below similarly-senior desktop, mobile, or web developers I disagree. At my workplace(regulated industry), Embedded software engineers are paid 2x-5x of other engineering groups. Infact, some of our embedded engineers have so much leverage that they have negotiated 3-4 day work-weeks. Second highest paid group are DevOps(though they don't actually do much for us, as there is separate IT department). And our generic software engineers for web and custom-devices also make decent salary. What you mention could be a US centric thing. Just to make some sense, our embedded software engineers not only write good code, they also maintain their own CI/CD, extensive test coverage, harsh code reviews, very well maintained codebase(unlike on other places I have worked where arcane header files are thrown around and used, no questions asked), automated deployment and update system, A/B testing, rollback and other interesting things typically practiced by higher level(web/desktop/mobile etc.) engineers. I have also worked at a big name AG where they make specialized hardware, the engineers there also made very decent pay but quality of software and development practices were more like script kiddies copy pasting things and calling it a day if the emulator showed correct operation.