> non-executive management pay and non-executive non-management pay.
I'm curious why you make a distinction between managers and non-managers - (though I get where you're coming from: I agree that at most companies the only way to climb upwards is into management), but in some industries there are opportunities for horizontal-promotion and other non-management promotions (for example, being an engineering technical advisor who reports directly to the CEO while having no reports of their own and having a total-comp far north of a normal IC eng)
Oh, then there's also companies like law-firms where lawyer partners in the firm aren't necessarily managers nor executives either, so I'm not sure how that would be fairly reported to represent the state of the income distribution.
I think most of us in the tech field overestimate the number of jobs where a high level IC can be comped equivalent to low level management. That’s really not the norm for most jobs, and often the pay gradients into management and senior management can be very steep.
I distinguish them because, in the US at least, pay for managers is significantly higher than it is for individual contributors and there are fewer of them. There is a further gap between executive (director and above) and non-executive management with respect to both bonuses and equity allocation.
I'm curious why you make a distinction between managers and non-managers - (though I get where you're coming from: I agree that at most companies the only way to climb upwards is into management), but in some industries there are opportunities for horizontal-promotion and other non-management promotions (for example, being an engineering technical advisor who reports directly to the CEO while having no reports of their own and having a total-comp far north of a normal IC eng)
Oh, then there's also companies like law-firms where lawyer partners in the firm aren't necessarily managers nor executives either, so I'm not sure how that would be fairly reported to represent the state of the income distribution.