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Don't know about the US market but in EU salaries in the embedded/automotive/industrial control are crap compared to frontend/app kiddies.

It's definitely a tragedy of the commons, idiocracy style.

Lots of embedded work related to critical infrastructure is now dumped to Eastern Europe or Asia as the good people in this field are mostly gray beards which are deemed too expensive by management.




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