[stn_za]

Luckily management is not the requirement for more money nowadays. Most Staff/Principle and even Senior engineers are on equal footing (and often more) with managers in terms of salary.

At least in my country.

[xvilka]

And it's good since often it requires far more skill than managing.

[Matthias247]

As an engineer on those level you are also mostly dealing with how to align a huge group of people - you are just not required with hiring, compensation, etc.