[soulbadguy]

Things have probably changed in the last year or so since the pandemic, but due to a combination of stock appreciation and much smaller company size pretty much everyone was paying more than MSFT : Uber, lyft, airbnb, snowflakes etc... and a bunch of pre-ipo company depends on how much one believed their valuation.

The only company paying worst than MSFT were the hardware company such as AMD,Qualcomm and intel. But hardware companies are known for low wages