[ghuntley]

95k base is indeed low. Severe undersupply of developers with deep mobile knowledge.

Whilst it's been years since the advent of mobile, most enterprise organisations are doing their first mobile project in 2016/2017. You can thank Gartner for that.

As for $150/hr on contract, I know someone who invoices more than that but you must be on your A game and be ready to teach, teach, teach.

There's nothing too special about Xamarin knowledge. Drop your Apple vs google fanboyisms, learn both platforms, learn MVVM, implement pure MVVM (don't fall back to singleton city).

If you know android/iOS well and are wondering where next to apply your six+ years of mobile development knowledge vs having to compete with comoditization and off shoring - this is it. With your deep knowledge and experience you will smash the existing talent in the market out of the park.