[roflyear]

MS c-suite makes a total of roughly ~$135,244,086, the board of directors make a total of about $4m (gates takes no salary at all, btw).

This 10k layoff, at an average salary of 190,302, is about $2b a year. So yeah not quite - but for them to suffer no consequences is still pretty gross.

[notfromhere]

Worse thing is that MSFT minted $72B in net income last year, so these layoffs are really about them saving...2.7% of net income in exchange for messing with the lives of 10k employees.

[LadyCailin]

> gates takes no salary at all, btw

This is in part, due to the fact that he has nothing to do with Microsoft anymore.

[roflyear]

Ah, I thought he was still on the board. One website listing salaries lists gates. Weird.