Googlers paid so well paid it would take decades for ordinary people to catch up

The fact is — everyone should be paid more; we need a society where wealth is merely captured by but a relative few individuals.

In a sense, however, the way Googlers are paid is not quite right; Google itself is a microcosm for income disparity with respect to ICs versus executives; and Google outside of itself is a microcosm for wealth capture disparity among firms in the country — it almost certainly holds an unfair monopoly at this point.

This article seems to be about inciting class warfare without considering facts. I can't afford to live where I grew up, a barely middle-class area, without making $400k/year. Something is very wrong if most Googlers can't afford that and there are a smaller subset of people with extreme wealth being created or moving in who caused absurd gentrification.

> One has to wonder what Googlers, if surveyed again, really think "fair and equitable" pay is.

It's written as a rabble-rousing op-ed piece.

It could be they're genuinely outraged (after all, this is someone on journalist compensation, looking at Leetcode performance artist TC), or they could just be going for clicks, or they could be doing a hit piece on Google PR, or they could be helping Google to suppress compensation.

IMHO, there are much better things to criticize Google over, than that they pay well. Especially some of the company behaviors that enable paying high TC. BI's full disclosure on the article says their company is suing over some company behaviors.

Title shortened due to length restrictions. Original title was, “The highest-earning Googlers are so well paid it would take decades for ordinary people to catch up — but some of them say they should earn more.”

Google “high pay” is the price of having a well obedient workforce to work on ethically questionable projects such as “Project Nimbus”.

There's a good number of googlers that understand the system is a game. They always vote that they want more even if they believe they are being paid more than most.

If Googlers successfully unionized, they would be paid a lot more fairly.

And some ordinary people spending decades still wouldn’t necessarily be able to do what someone at google can, today.

I don’t know if it’s just me but it sounds justified, but there is supposed to be something wrong with that?