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Better pay is imho not true.

Maybe the lower bound might be higher, but from my experience working in FAANG/IB/HedgeFunds the pay for normal SWEs (web frontend+backend, fullstack, whatever you wanna call it) was always higher than iOS devs. (most of the time much higher).

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Not my experience. Native mobile dev is a niche, it’s in high demand, and it’s hard to find good people for. The companies who really need these roles pay well for them and I think it’s also easier to get hired for one of these roles as a result.

And I wouldn’t include IB or hedge funds in those numbers, because building internal tools is rarely where the money is.

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