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Not at Microsoft but know the company well (did contracting work for some teams).

PM refers to Project Manager as far as I know. But there are different levels of PM's within Microsoft. You can be a completely junior PM managing two really junior devs developing a simple feature. Or you can be a principal level PM and earn that amount of money. Just the term PM doesn't mean much.

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This isn't correct for product development groups; things may be different in IT and MCS. In product groups, PM always means program manager and the role really isn't much about project management. PMs at Microsoft are engineers and subject to the same "I", II, Senior, Principal, Partner title hierarchy.

Thanks for clarifying that. And I indeed meant the title hierarchy you mentioned.

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