[quote=AN]
It’s not about difficulty of the job. It’s purely about supply and demand.[/quote]

That’s exactly right.

I was going to post: there are a few SW specialties in SD that can get $175K, but those salaries are due to there not being enough skilled people to meet demand.

So what motivation – at all! – do those people have to get on a public forum and crow about their sweet spot? That would encourage people to transition to that niche and drive down their salary!

Also…slicing it by technical skill is fine, but I think there is more of a salary variation in general by slicing it another way: by industry.