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I am a manager, and I disagree. The ranges overlap: an early career engineer will definitely be paid less than an early career manager... but a top engineer sh

• nojito 6y ago
  Not true. The idea that an IC is going to out contribute a top manager who oversees dozens of lower tier ICs doesn't make a whole lot of sense. A good manager is a productivity multiplier which is why the top companies spend an arm and leg training up their managers. The real issue is that is much easier to manage a group of top engineers than it is to manage a group of engineers who think that they are top engineers.
  • ratww 6y ago
    Good individual contributors are also productivity multipliers. There's nothing specific about managers that makes this trait specific to them. Also, using salary to force engineers into becoming managers is a good recipe for losing good engineers. Either because they become managers or because they leave.
  • pracer 6y ago
    And this is the perfect example of why so many companies are doing it wrong. Managers that truly believe they are the ones pulling the weight and making projects possible (without any mention to technology and eng. knowledge) and if not, it is because the engineers are over their minds and you have to micromanage them. And because managers tend to be the ones proposing promotions or career upgrades, they reproduce this mindset by selection bias. The point mentioned in some comment above about changing company if you feel forced to move to management has been proved by this comment. If you see this behaviour in management, no matter if you want to continue your IC career or move to management, run. Find a better place.