No employer could ever stay in business if they paid employees as much value as the employee brings in. A $100K engineer may work on features worth a million d

No employer could ever stay in business if they paid employees as much value as the employee brings in. A $100K engineer may work on features worth a million dollars a year, but that doesn't mean that an employer could pay that employee a million dollars because the employer has many overhead expenses -- office rent, paying for servers, marketing expenses, paying the sales guys that bring in the million dollars a year, paying other support employees, putting money in the bank to ride through lean times, investing in new products/features that may never make money, etc. The only way an employee can be paid as much money as he brings in for the company is if he is self employed.