What is that doesn't add up? Of course if you want decrease your cost for salaries you can't have other people pay more. In fact, you want other people to pay l

What is that doesn't add up? Of course if you want decrease your cost for salaries you can't have other people pay more. In fact, you want other people to pay less. That is how many of these companies started attracting employees in the first place. The median salary at Google is $200k, that is undoubtedly a lot of money in salaries. They certainly wouldn't mind turning some of that into profit instead. But it is probably even more important that salaries doesn't continue to rise. Especially since it is always hard to decrease pay for current employees.