> managers are usually paid better than the top IC This has not been my experience most places I’ve worked - you’ve gotta get a couple rungs up the management

> managers are usually paid better than the top IC This has not been my experience most places I’ve worked - you’ve gotta get a couple rungs up the management ladder (director or such) before the pay scale gets above staff and sr staff. (It’s how we wound up with a few people at a previous gig managing teams as staff engineers - they didn’t want to take the pay cut for the title.)