When I think of “budget” in this context, I’m thinking about what is available to the engineers in terms of tools, resources, and time. Where I work, it doesn’

When I think of “budget” in this context, I’m thinking about what is available to the engineers in terms of tools, resources, and time. Where I work, it doesn’t really matter what I’m paid, we don’t have a budget to go get what we need. If I think a certain tool would help get a job done faster, too bad, I have to cobble together what I can with the tools I’ve been provided. If I think something will take a year, too bad, it’s due in a month and we’ll have an hour long meeting every day to ask why it isn’t done yet. In this context, employee pay is largely irrelevant.