Yeah, managers higher up have a strong incentive to create compensation structures where managers are paid more the more people they manage. But like, being a m

Yeah, managers higher up have a strong incentive to create compensation structures where managers are paid more the more people they manage. But like, being a manager doesn't say much at all about what you do. A non technical manager who managers engineers doesn't add much value and instead the engineers will be mostly self organizing, as such they are mostly there to provide administrative support. Your average office worker can do that, there is no reason such managers should be well compensated unless they also do other work like product management or similar.