Good perspective, pbiggar.
Question for clarification: Do those ICs making "a lot" report to managers that make more, less or equal (generally speaking of course)?
Question for clarification: Do those ICs making "a lot" report to managers that make more, less or equal (generally speaking of course)?
(This assumes that the "managers" are strictly people managers. Often, managers might do some or all of managing teams, products, releases, people, or technical leadership. It certainly wouldn't be unheard of to have a manager's team include an engineer far senior to the manager.)
So it’s not unheard of. It is fairly uncommon however, the average manager is probably making somewhat more than the average engineer they manage at the large tech companies.
I think this is a pretty common structure for companies that actually have an IC track that goes being senior engineer.