>>107039230
look at the difference between top and base for those ones.
its probably like 5~ guys making that much
just makes the company look good showing that

>>107039230
They adjust for your local region's cost of living for the other offices or remote. The base will typically vary very little within a tier and what really changes is the stock received, which btw you will have to pay big taxes on if you try to pull out immediately. That's why most of the "salary" is in stock since it encourages their employees to keep it in stock, which the company can then use. So it looks nice on paper, but the reality is they are paying you with money they intend to, mostly, keep using themselves and if you try to game them you end up losing. In fact, even if you hold onto them you are basically guaranteed to lose 15%-20% of it's value because your income level puts you into the higher brackets. The only way you could get around this if you wait until retirement to start selling them when you can declare low income (but you need to watch how much you sell per year doing this, basically you have to live like a poorfag it's like 50k for solo or 100k for married couples or less if you want 0% tax). God forbid you try to withdraw immeiately you'll be raped by the taxes (talking 25-32% for E3-E5 easily). In fact, stock options are pretty funny because even if you don't sell them their values are still accounted for as "income" for stuff like SS/state/local/fed taxes so you'll be in a high tax bracket from this and if you don't sell you pay out of your base to cover it and if you do sell you get raped by more taxes. It's truly a system designed to look great on paper but actually is assfucking you while they (the company, and government) benefit. Don't get me wrong, you'll still be rich regardless of this but a lot of your money will be tied up and loss to high cost of living.
Also getting to E7 and above is extremely limited like >>107039237 said and it requires the person to make significant improvements/contributions to the company. Think "architect" tier positions just with a gayer name. Making it past E5 is actually pretty tough.

Yea but you get laid off at a moments notice for random bullshit

>>107039230
They spent 36 billion on a shitty cloone of playstation home.
It’s money laundering.