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What exactly do you mean by compensation? If you mean salary, then the chef has a lower salary than an engineer.

If you mean stock options, then employees aren't given stock options based on their skill sets. They are given options commensurate with the risk they undertook. That's why early employees have higher stock options.

The Google chef got $20 million worth of stock options not because of his cooking skills, it was compensation for the risk he took, by cooking for the engineers of a firm that might have folded in months.

Startup Economics 101.