[Traubenfuchs]

Name the other axes, Seth. What are they? What else is there but money? With sufficient money you can fill your positions instantly with top talent.

Anyone pretending there are other answers is probably guilty of lowballing, wanting to lowball or the English translation of my name: a grape fox.

[AceJohnny2]

Work-life balance. Job perks. Working on projects that you consider valuable.

Non-profits are particularly good at that last point.

[captainbland]

> Working on projects that you consider valuable.

Sometimes I imagine all the very wealthy people thinking about where to allocate their capital like "hm, hiring more people to do computational cancer research? nah. Let's try and invalidate people's insurance claims through their ad clicks instead."

[asadotzler]

Most corporations with any power are sociopathic institutions run by sociopaths competing with other similar corporations on who accumulate and deploy the most power. Punching down is always more lucrative than punching up and you don't change things or have breakthroughs without at least a little punching up. As you noted, that rarely happens because it's simply easier and more lucrative to fuck people over.

[jeltz]

Great team members. That one is very important too.

[lanstin]

autonomy is a big one for some people. respect. influence/power. As a software engineer I have left jobs because the total traffic was too low, and I was addicted to 10^9 and the like numbers in my counters. Additional salary is ok, but it functionally just means I waste more or less money before having to rein it in. If I saw really rich people doing more awesome stuff with their moneys, I might think otherwise, but having a Lambo or a house so large my kids would be less able to relate to people in general doesn't seem that useful. Get used to luxry clothes instead of my somewhat scruffy true style

[1-more]

A big one as a developer is internal investment. Who works on internal tooling and infrastructure? How robust is the CI/CD pipeline? How much of an event is it when a deploy happens?

[kevinmchugh]

Equity? If you have the choice of a million dollars in salary and 100,000 shares or 1.1 million in salary and 50,000 shares, probably you should take the lower salary

[ghaff]

It's really not beyond a certain level. Maybe it mostly is for entry-level but tons of people don't exclusively focus on highest comp.

[quickthrower2]

Career prospects are another axis I would say.

[avery17]

That's just money with extra steps.

[quickthrower2]

It is power with money as a side effect. An important distinction.

Say you go broke or get divorced or whatever, the experience and connections help you get back on your feet.

[tester457]

Another axis is purple