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'''You get paid more''': The more senior you are, the more lolly you take home. This news should not rock anyone’s world. Nor that the rate of increase in lolly is not linear, but exponential. | '''You get paid more''': The more senior you are, the more lolly you take home. This news should not rock anyone’s world. Nor that the rate of increase in lolly is not linear, but exponential. | ||
'''There are fewer of you''': This stands to reason: | '''There are fewer of you''': This stands to reason: there are lots of [[fungible]] Belarusian minions at the bottom taking home 30,000 rubles a year for carting around huge hunks of stone, occasionally getting squished, but — hey, hose down the rockface and get a new one. Only one [[Hank]], flitting around the world in a corporate jet and speaking at Davos, but he takes home twenty-five mill. When you multiply take-home comp by rank title, it looks a bit like the snake who ate the elephant in ''Le Petit Prince''. | ||
'''You spend more time managing other people''': We take this to be a trivial observation: the contractor at the call-centre in Belarus has no direct reports, so spends zero time-managing; the CEO ultimately has every direct report, so spends almost all her time line-managing. the gradations between are not inevitable — every firm has those grave, grand elders who float about sprinkling their ineffable magic on things, without having any portfolio in particular or any direct reports but as a rule the further up the chain you go, the more time you spend managing. | '''You spend more time managing other people''': We take this to be a trivial observation: the contractor at the call-centre in Belarus has no direct reports, so spends zero time-managing; the CEO ultimately has every direct report, so spends almost all her time line-managing. the gradations between are not inevitable — every firm has those grave, grand elders who float about sprinkling their ineffable magic on things, without having any portfolio in particular or any direct reports but as a rule the further up the chain you go, the more time you spend managing. | ||