Paying top employees the highest salaries in the market

Re:Paying top employees the highest salaries in the market by nathan_f77 on Monday September 25, 2017 @08:05AM (#15329683)

There's a lot of talk about work-life balance on HN, and I usually lean way towards the "life" end of the spectrum. For the last few years I've only been doing a couple of hours of paid work per day.

But yeah, I'd be happy to work 70 hour weeks for $3M per year.

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Re:Paying top employees the highest salaries in the market by npsimons on Monday September 25, 2017 @08:41AM (#15329904)

> But yeah, I'd be happy to work 70 hour weeks for $3M per year.

I think I might compromise to work 70 hour weeks for $3m for one year. The trick is, you don't get to pick when that year happens, and there's actually a lot of build up to get to where you're worth $3m a year. There's a couple of Paul Graham essays with this as one of their themes:

http://paulgraham.com/wealth.html

http://paulgraham.com/start.html

I love the idea, but I don't think I'm good enough to pull it off, and I don't like the odds.

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Re:Paying top employees the highest salaries in the market by classybull on Monday September 25, 2017 @08:45AM (#15329923)

Well, for at least a single year. I mean.. Work twice as hard for one year, and get paid close to what I can reasonably expect to make in 20.. yea, seems like a no brainer.

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Re:Paying top employees the highest salaries in the market by jrs235 on Monday September 25, 2017 @04:18PM (#15333750)

Ditto. I'd be happy to that for 6-12 months. :) Then I'd work on whatever I wanted thereafter.

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