Rarely does a company make 20M off the work of one engineer. Every 4-5 engineers is another 1M expense, nevermind the other employee salaries. I get kind of a

Rarely does a company make 20M off the work of one engineer. Every 4-5 engineers is another 1M expense, nevermind the other employee salaries. I get kind of annoyed when people look at large aggregate numbers and complain about how different they are from the individual employee pay. Even CEO pay - if they took the entire bonus given to the General Motors CEO and divided it among every employee in the company, it would come out to something smaller than their Christmas bonus. I do think CEOs are generally overpaid and under-liable, but it's not like the CEO salary is directly responsible for workers missing out on the highlife.