At Google, we do have situations where two people doing the same work can have a hundred times difference in their impact, and in their rewards. For example, there have been situations where one person received a stock award of $10,000, and another working in the same area received $1,000,000. This isn’t the norm, but the range of rewards at almost any level can easily vary by 300 to 500 percent, and even then there is plenty of room for outliers. In fact, we have many cases where people at more “junior” levels make far more than average performers at more “senior” levels.
