Intel CEO's compensation still trails AMD CEO's by half — despite a significant boost in 2023

Honestly, I couldn't care less.

Last time I did the math on CEO pay I came to realize that it works out to be like a penny per card. (This was about maybe a year or two ago, on Nvidia cards)

CEO pay just does not affect me. Nor does it actually affect anybody else. Except penny pinchers.

These salaries are completely fraudulent to begin with... I can't fathom why Tomshardware is highlighting this as if the Intel golden circle member make less than the AMD one is some how a travesty of justice. Here's how this criminal activity works:

Most CEOs sit on each others boards and vote themselves higher pay at the expense of their workers and shareholders. Every year their pay packages balloon a little more, with each new high watermark in compensation raising the yachts of all executives (because in CEO land, pay is based on what the other CEOs get) while the boat-less employees get left behind decade after decade. The corporate controlled media then jumps in and trumpets how valuable the executives are based on their completely engineered salaries (because gosh darn it, if the CEOs weren't worth that much they wouldn't be getting paid that much) and people like Jim Cramer jump to their defense like a loaded spring when those stories are challenged for being the propaganda they are.

In 1950 CEOs made 20-1 the average worker. In 1980 it was 42-1. In 2000 it was 120-1. In 2014 it is 204-1.

This did not happen by happy accident.

LibertyWell said:

Every year their pay packages balloon a little more, with each new high watermark in compensation raising the yachts of all executives (because in CEO land, pay is based on what the other CEOs get) while the boat-less employees get left behind decade after decade.

I find math to be fascinating. You said Intel. Ok.

The article says that Gelsinger made $11.61 million, let's just use 12 million to have a nice easy number to work with, and divide it by four. Let's give 75% to the employees. Ready! 9 million, just for them.

The challenge is, how many employees are we talking about? Well, what kind of employee? Engineers are a good, solid perhaps more mid-level kind of employee and not say, a janitor. Intel claims to have 15,000 software engineers. Ok, great. What reason do I have to distrust this number?
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/software/software-partnerships.html
How many hardware engineers does Intel employ? A little harder to discern, but between 20,000 employees in Oregon and 12,000 employees in Arizona, perhaps we can say that 25,000 employees are hardware engineers? Yes, I'm making that up but it does give us something to work with. Why don't we just play it safe and say there's only 10,000 hardware engineers? That's probably a low-ball, but that's ok.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/corporate-responsibility/community-global-sites.html
Between 10,000 hardware engineers and 15,000 software engineers, we have 25,000 total engineers.

I love it! Maths is so much funs! What's 9 million divided by 25,000?

It's a number that I'm more mad at about taking this time to doing the maths, than mad I can get about CEO pay.

We have $360 dollars. That's three hundred and sixty dollars per person.

Now in my lifetime I have seen boats for sale for $360 dollars. Guess what condition the boat was in?

Yes, maths are very fun, but it really hurts people's ability to get revenge-oriented.

Let's even be nice and say that Intel employees zero - zero hardware engineers anywhere on the planet! Which we all know is false, but let's only rely on the number we can trust. 15,000 software engineers.

When we do the fun maths we arrive at $600 dollar per person. I wouldn't set foot in a boat valued at $600 dollars. Would you?

I'll close with this. I hear you - I hear the deep anger in what you typed, I just don't know what realistic basis it's founded on.

(The Nvidia math was even easier than this. Nvidia sold like 20 million cards three years ago, and Jensen Huang's pay was 20 million. It was the biggest penny I'd ever seen.)

EDIT: Now, why don't we just give all of Gelsinger's 12 million away? Won't get one stinking penny! Also, we have to be truthful. We all know Intel has hardware engineers on its payroll. But let's use an even smaller number that is obviously unrealistic, only 5000 hardware engineers. So in total, Intel employs 20,000 software/hardware engineers.

What's 12 million divided by 20,000 engineers? It's again, 600 dollars. These are people who normally make upwards of 80,000, 90,000, and probably 100,000 or over 100,000 dollars every year and that's not including total compensation such as health/dental/401k.

How is 600 dollars worth so much anger over a long period? People spend years, decades of their lives being hateful over this. Why? That's not even enough to spoil a good pot of coffee. If I made 80k and was told by my boss I was getting a big fat bonus this year of a whopping 600 dollars, do you know how much of an insult that would be?

Maths, it turns out, just isn't any fun at all. It's a coffee spoiler.

There is always somebody wasting time and bandwidth defending any CEO's obscene salary and golden parachute.
But especially if said CEO happens to be the big cheese of their favorite company.

But one should ask, why does TH deem this a worthy technological subject??