Will you offer him $450k regardless of whether he would accept $250k because his...

BurningFrog · on Jan 7, 2025

In that case I would offer $250k, of course, but that assumes there is no other firm that can put that person to work on something equally profitable.

Either way, engineer wages at Google would not be a factor.

sokoloff · on Jan 8, 2025

In this example, if their alternative was a $300K/yr job at Google, that would certainly affect their willingness to accept your $250K/yr offer.

If it did not at least affect that willingness, they might not be worth $250K/yr as a financial analyst.

wewtyflakes · on Jan 7, 2025

> Either way, engineer wages at Google would not be a factor.

...for you. It would be a factor for who you are trying to hire. If who you are trying to hire sees Google engineers making $$$, but you are offering $ for job X, and they do not see it as an unbridgeable gap in their own aptitude, they could well say "I am going to instead try to be an engineer at Google so I can make $$$, instead of being offered $ doing X". This happens all the time.