Salaries
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Anderson: $1M+ salaries can make sense when GPU spend dominates burn
“In terms of like total spend on GPUs, it can still be a total, a small fraction of your burn. So sometimes it kind of makes sense.”
Manickam: Indian Investors Struggle With High Semiconductor Tool and Salary Costs
“I personally have given a lot of talks to the financials committee And they're, you know, starting to open up their purse. They're a little bit you know, not used to this, right? Because most of the funding goes towards salaries or to tools, right? In our busi…”
Mullenweg: Automattic pays equal salaries globally, regardless of employee location
“Another interesting thing is we actually pay the same salaries globally. So whether you're in California or Italy or Nigeria or wherever, we pay global salaries.”
Mullenweg: Automattic pays identical salaries regardless of employee geography
“So something we didn't do when we started, but we switched in like, was paying the same salaries regardless of geography, right? It's the same work. It's the same job. You're creating the same value for the company and the and the customers. So you should make…”
Chamath Palihapitiya: Wage increases to resolve labor shortages will be permanent
“The only efficient way that that's going to get resolved is by raising salaries. And those are consistent and persistent.”
Prosek: Firm Shares All Internal Data With Staff Except Salaries
“I always say at ProSec, you can know anything about anything outside of someone else's salary. That's it. Everything.”
Content Tools spends $65,000 to $70,000 monthly on total payroll
“A little bit less than that. It's not, not everyone earns three K. Some people are a little bit less. Some people are a little bit more than that. So we are around six to five K, seven K. Okay.”
Altman: Doubling salaries to hire faster is impossible to reverse later
“The one mistake that I think companies really make in this is they decide that they need a lot of people, they can't get them, and so they're going to just, like, double salaries or triple salaries. They're just gonna, like, start way overpaying for people, an…”