Apple is literally swimming in money; my friends who work there are compensated well enough to buy one or more houses in the Bay Area. That's no small feat.
??? According to Levels, ICT5 at Apple is ~$440k TC averaged over more than 150 datapoints. That's not even management...
I think it's safe to say that $600k couldn't have been more than 20-25% of his TC over 5 years, IF that. Absolutely braindead to take that huge a risk for that little reward (not to mention a deeply shitty thing to do given his position, obv). That's not even close to 1x, never mind an order of magnitude!
There's companies handling publicly available salary information for them, better than Levels can fight back against them. Same with Glassdoor. Coopting both. And the data isn't objective, they show different averages to different people. Same firms handle both, they're on the same lists, part of PR budget.
But it does give a vague idea.
Better than that get a better picture from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that does in fact compile that information for each job and is much harder to fuck with, it's illegal in fact.
Salary data on this forum seem pretty inflated, well it's very warped. It's all to make it seem there's a giant pot of gold at the end of the rainbow if your program compiles and you "get hired."
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