Inbox (paraphrase): "I'm an engineer considering a switch to PM. Which gets paid more?" That's a potentially useful and nuanced question, so. My ambient impression is that, at high status employers, engineers get paid more than PMs, materially so, early in their careers.
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It is definitely a generalization and I appreciate that you called that out. I’ve just always found that those in the trenches have a better understanding of how to move forward.
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Iappreciate engineer contribution 110%, but the best engineer working on the wrong problem is not having impact.
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Hi, former accountant w/ an MBA here. From a business perspective: 1 PM often tells MULTIPLE engineers what to do. 1 engineer does 1 engineers work. Also: 1 PM may M many Ps. Each w/ a PAYING client. Lot of value there. YMMV, as Patrick said.
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1 engineer can also be a client of multiple pms
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I’ve seen A LOT of situations where engineers told the PM what needed to be done, because what the PM said to do made very little sense.
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I would like to think it’s more “engineers help PMs understand what’s possible/viable/valuable in the technical context, so PMs can better prioritise based on their understanding of the business context”. Ideally it’s not at all adversarial.
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Areas where "supervisors" are often paid less than their direct reports: sales managers and people who manage trading desks. Suspect that the easier it is to assess individual contributor value, the more likely this is.
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I think there’s also usually more opportunity for a good PM to have a multiplier effect on a larger group. Flexing that value raises the ceiling quite a bit.
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