[aste-risk]

what's up with microsoft? out of all the big tech companies in that chart (https://www.levels.fyi/charts.html), their employees look most underpaid; yet they are doing amazing. How can they get away with not paying their engineers on par with competition?

[adenozine]

Bonuses, seasonal differentials, benefits, vacation time, excellent managers who don't micromanage might all be reasons people stay there. I don't work there, but I've worked for less than I'm "worth" before because of reasons like those.

10% pay cut, but 5wks vacation instead of 2? Sign me up. I really landed an offer like that once, I felt so lucky.

It all just depends. It could just be bad statistics or something like that too, it's all quite hard to actually quantify when there's so many non-numerical factors (insurance, commute, social, etc)

[Cthulhu_]

How much international employees do they have? The US, especially the SF area is probably the highest paid location, most of the world has much more reasonable wages.

[aaomidi]

Cheaper market probably