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$1.75T / 25,000 employees = $70M/employee. That's pretty impressive.

You would think even the lowest paid employees performing routine labor at the company would be pulling in multiple 6-figure salaries. I wonder if that's the case?



> You would think even the lowest paid employees performing routine labor at the company would be pulling in multiple 6-figure salaries.

Why would you think that? Because of Musk's reputation for magnificence and generosity? Because rich gigantic companies don't care about keeping operating costs low? Or because janitors at SpaceX require special skills that can only be obtained by paying many multiples of the market rates for standard janitors?


It was a general statement about any company with a value to employee ration that high. It's about sharing gains of a team as a whole.




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