A lot of people at Google are north of $500k, I've heard. We're talking engineering and product, not management.
I mean, what would you pay someone like Ken Thompson? There are the outliers like him, of course, but I've also heard that even the less-known folks do well.
Though I've heard all of that from Xooglers, it remains anecdotal. I also remain slightly old-school when dealing with other peoples' salary and give them respect; I'll freely tell you what I make (if permitted legally), but I understand people are not as open as I am and I try to respect their privacy.
The problem here is the distinction between discrimination (there exists X) and calibration (X is close to true figure Y +/- Z, where Z is inflation from anecdotal inflation bias).
I mean, what would you pay someone like Ken Thompson? There are the outliers like him, of course, but I've also heard that even the less-known folks do well.
Though I've heard all of that from Xooglers, it remains anecdotal. I also remain slightly old-school when dealing with other peoples' salary and give them respect; I'll freely tell you what I make (if permitted legally), but I understand people are not as open as I am and I try to respect their privacy.