Some people work on very high speed serdes or busses. Imagine you have a hardware group of around 150 people led by a director, like 10-15 middle managers, som

Some people work on very high speed serdes or busses. Imagine you have a hardware group of around 150 people led by a director, like 10-15 middle managers, some PMs, etc. Total comp for employees ranges from like 80k/yr for the team in a low CoL country to over 500k/yr for the director and tech leads. With support, offices, labs, sw, the group might cost like $150mm/yr. A few speed scopes just get budgeted in.