[fooker]

Point taken, you cherry-picked a particular low number from the chart though, you could easily do it the other way and find a E5 making 600k at Meta.

Apple pays a bit below the silicon valley average, I am not quite I understand sure why---they sure have the money. I had a conversation with an Apple recruiter a couple of years ago who assured me this was not the case, and then eventually their offer was ~25% below my contemporary TC.

Also Canada tech salaries are quite a bit below US west coast levels.

[badpun]

I think Jobs once said that they're not willing to pay top market rates because they don't want to attract people strongly and primarily motivated by money.

[fooker]

That's an interesting philosophy that seems to have worked out for them, except maybe in the last few years where they have struggled to get AI talent.