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Re:CEOs’ pay climbed before layoffs at tech giants like Alph... by t8sr on Sunday August 06, 2023 @10:04AM (#37022025)
Anyone can sound confident on the internet, but you don't seem to have anything to back it up. In my experience, 1 million per SWE in the Bay Area is actually about right across the industry.

You can look at public numbers to see that Google's revenue per __global__ employee is about 1.5 M and of that about 400 k is net income. SWEs in California make a lot more than the average global employee.

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Re:CEOs’ pay climbed before layoffs at tech giants like Alph... by bushbaba on Sunday August 06, 2023 @03:44PM (#37025805)
Costs also include server/DC/sales/marketing etc. you can’t include the server cost of say google maps as part of the people-headcount costs of google maps.
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Re:CEOs’ pay climbed before layoffs at tech giants like Alph... by ztrww on Monday August 07, 2023 @06:51AM (#37032761)
aren’t Google’s payouts for ads to websites/content creators/etc. included in their costs?

and of course all the other stuff the other comments mentioned and also including paying various contractors hired through other companies..

> Anyone can sound confident on the internet,

I’m not that sure about that

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