According to glassdoor the avg salary for In N Out managers is ~84k [0].

>The typical In-N-Out Burger Store Manager salary is $84,315. Store Manager salaries at In-N-Out Burger can range from $55,134 - $130,157. This estimate is based upon 11 In-N-Out Burger Store Manager salary report(s) provided by employees or estimated based upon statistical methods. When factoring in bonuses and additional compensation, a Store Manager at In-N-Out Burger can expect to make an average total pay of $114,271 .

Not sure what the "total pay" means exactly but that averages 114k. Still way below the 160k you quoted which I think was from this article: https://medium.californiasun.co/in-n-out-store-managers-earn...

The California Sun article gives no sources for the claims of an average salary for in-n-out managers of 160k. Which is amusing as the article does reference Indeed.com for the "architect" salary it compares to in-n-out. According to Indeed.com the average salary is 42.8k [1]. I also saw that the story was picked up by USA Today, so I'm sure most people will forever more think In-N-Out store managers are making 160k on average, truth be damned.

[0] https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/In-N-Out-Burger-Store-Manag... [1] https://www.indeed.com/cmp/In--n--out-Burger/salaries/Manage...

According to that Glassdoor link, the average base salary is $84k and the average extra pay (bonuses?) just about doubles that. I'm not sure if I'm reading it right since like you said they describe the average total pay as $114k

Glassdoor says the salary average is based on 11 reports. 5 reports included a bonus averaging $82,701 (and 2 reports included profit sharing averaging $10,345). The question is why only 5 of the 11 reported a bonus; or more specifically, did the others receive bonuses that they didn't report? If Glassdoor assumes that the other six didn't receive bonuses, then the average total pay of $114K makes sense.

    84,315 + 82,701*5/11 + 10,345*2/11 = 123,787

The simple way I see to count these doesn't match the $114K, but it's close enough that I can buy that that's a big part of it. But the question is still whether the assumption (that nobody else received bonuses) is correct. It's plausible that many people fill out only the base salary figure, even if they have other compensation. If everybody gets a bonus, then the $160K figure reported in the other articles could be justified.

Sure, and that's a great salary, but the median Google engineer makes more than the median CA software engineer, and a much larger percentage of Google workers make the types of salaries we're talking about than In-n-Out workers.

It's weird to make a list flat out ranking In-n-Out as an overall better place to work.

It seems like you should at least compare software engineering managers.