Where I worked salaries were the same, but everyone above line manager generally got a 100% bonus. So while engineers might get $25k in stock, a line manager w

Where I worked salaries were the same, but everyone above line manager generally got a 100% bonus. So while engineers might get $25k in stock, a line manager would get $150k, director $300k, and VP could get over a million for successful projects, CX0's 5-10 million. This makes perfect sense when you consider that management is setting salaries and bonuses. Of course no one out of the loop knew it. Engineers generally got disappeared when the project was over.