I can assure you they are absolutely paying in the same ballpark as Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Google, you just don't know how to limit your searches to the tech roles.
Depends on the role. $500k total comp is common on the tech scale of the companies I'm familiar with. While not the $800k+ you might see at some FAANG in specific roles, it absolutely is enough to no longer consider FAANG if you're bothered even one iota by their hiring process.
I’m very familiar with at least three of the companies that are based in Atlanta - Delta, Coke and Home Depot.
Seeing that I’ve worked for corp dev for almost 25 years before joining BigTech.