Compensation is negotiated up and down marginally by the cost of hiring someone else, but bounded above by profitability. You could be the best price:performanc

Compensation is negotiated up and down marginally by the cost of hiring someone else, but bounded above by profitability. You could be the best price:performance employee in the world for a small business, there's just not all that much they could pay you. A huge mega-profitable tech company can pay whatever it takes for top talent and also get away with sometimes inefficiently overpaying rest-and-vesters.