400 people at say 40k salaries or around 80k with benefits is around 32 million. Definitely a significant chunk of change, but barely scratching the surface for offsetting 1B in losses.
> Average: $67,935
And that's for a manager. 40k may be a little low, perhaps they're making 50 or 55, but it's not unreasonable for a normal marketing job.
That's lab rat money. I'd say 5-10k more, so we're close, but that's a double digit percent difference from 40k.
30 million, 60 million, 80 million. Point still stands.
They might also have a small amount of shares as part of their compensation. Paper money that will never leave the Uber accounting book now.