[loandigger]

Rule of Thumb #1 : The closer you are to affecting the marginal profitability of the company, the more you make.

e.g. Updating actuarial tables on a 20 yr old insurance system = low pay. Using ML/AI to re-build the actuarial tables into more profitable products that someone else loads = high pay.

[JoeAltmaier]

At some point it changes into "The closer you are to the money, the more you make". The pattern since the 80's is, folks who can write checks for the company, write them for each other.