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Emphasis on "high level".

An org of a few hundred people at a big tech company many only have a couple of Individual Contributors making this much money.

What does IC mean? Doesn't seem to be very googleable

An individual contributor, as opposed to a manager.

IC means integrated circuit.

Ichabod Crane

IC=Individual contributor (to answer sibling)

At semiconductor companies we have plenty of IC's doing IC design. The initialism has multiple definitions.

For the guy that asked, IC means integrated circuit. No fucking way they would give that money to a meatsack.

In this context it means "individual contribtor", and yes, some people are making that much money at Facebook, Google, Amazon and others.

IC being internal consultant?