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My guess would be that "up to" is carrying all of the weight of that sentence.

$100K salary and 880000% bonus potential

I think the headline is misleading. If you read the article, it sounds like they've increased the salary cap. It seems like a leap to assume they're offering anyone salaries at that cap.

The CEO isn't getting paid this amount.

You could work for 6 months and then retire for the rest of your life.

Extremely low and high wages drive people away, but for different reasons.

I hope to one day fall so far upward that I end up in a multimillion dollar a year role that I can flail through for a year (maybe two) then call it a day.

Yea, CEO's and their golden parachutes. They make 8000% of the median worker income, and whether the company succeeds or fails they rake in millions.

When the company is successful all credit goes to the CEO, and when they fail blame goes to everyone else as the CEO takes time to be with family with their golden parachute worth millions.

The era of the cult of CEO needs to end, it's become grotesque.