This is true and of course it's hard to quantify how much wage impact this had on the numbers. But since the companies' explicit goal in these poaching rules wa

This is true and of course it's hard to quantify how much wage impact this had on the numbers. But since the companies' explicit goal in these poaching rules was to keep salaries in check ("we are driving up salaries across the board"), I think it's safe to say it was substantial. Poaching usually requires giving the poachy a raise.