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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 should it that the ''rate of increase'' in lolly is not linear, but exponential, in an insane and impossible-to-rationalise kind of way. ''How much'' more is a matter of deep conjecture and utter secrecy: no-one knows, so everyone assumes the worst, regardless of where they are on the curve. It would be fun,<ref>for everyone but those at the top, which means it will nevver happen.</ref> as we have heard it proposed,<ref>Hat-tip to our regular correspondent [https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnstongraeme/ Graeme Johnson].</ref> if firms issued a “Lorenz curve” demonstrating the Gini coefficient in their departmental pay-scales. But running a multinational is not meant to ''be'' “fun”, so there is as much chance of this happening as there is of a turkey voting for Christmas.<ref>Because it would ''be'' a turkey voting for Christmas, in many cases.</ref> | '''You get paid more''': The more senior you are, the more lolly you take home. This news should not rock anyone’s world. Nor should it that the ''rate of increase'' in lolly is not linear, but exponential, in an insane and impossible-to-rationalise kind of way. ''How much'' more is a matter of deep conjecture and utter secrecy: no-one knows, so everyone assumes the worst, regardless of where they are on the curve. It would be fun,<ref>for everyone but those at the top, which means it will nevver happen.</ref> as we have heard it proposed,<ref>Hat-tip to our regular correspondent [https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnstongraeme/ Graeme Johnson].</ref> if firms issued a “Lorenz curve” demonstrating the Gini coefficient in their departmental pay-scales. But running a multinational is not meant to ''be'' “fun”, so there is as much chance of this happening as there is of a turkey voting for Christmas.<ref>Because it would ''be'' a turkey voting for Christmas, in many cases.</ref> | ||
'''There are fewer of you''': This stands to reason: there are ''lots'' of [[fungible]] Bucharestian minions at the bottom taking home RON30,000 a year for carting around huge hunks of stone and occasionally getting squished — but hey, hose down the rock-face and get a new one, you know? — but only one [[Hank]], taking home twenty-five mill for the inconvenience of having to flit around the world in a corporate jet and moralise at Davos. Generally, the more units cost, the fewer you can afford, but the irresistibility of this logic runs into the immovability of fat birds who, having made it to the thin branches, find themselves disinclined to make way meaning that, over time the poor old tree gets rather top-heavy. As a result, when you multiply take-home comp by rank title, it looks a bit like the snake who ate the elephant in ''Le Petit Prince''. | '''There are fewer of you''': This stands to reason: there are ''lots'' of [[fungible]] Bucharestian minions at the bottom taking home RON30,000 a year for carting around huge hunks of stone and occasionally getting squished — but hey, hose down the rock-face and get a new one, you know? — but only one [[Hank]], taking home twenty-five mill for the inconvenience of having to flit around the world in a corporate jet and moralise at Davos. Generally, the more units cost, the fewer you can afford, but the irresistibility of this logic runs into the immovability of [[fat bird on a thin branch|fat birds who, having made it to the thin branches]], find themselves disinclined to make way meaning that, over time the poor old tree gets rather top-heavy. As a result, 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 ''no'' time line-managing; [[Hank]] ultimately has every direct report, so spends almost ''all'' his time line-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 ''no'' time line-managing; [[Hank]] ultimately has every direct report, so spends almost ''all'' his time line-managing. | ||