SK Hynix gives its employees an average annual salary of about 185 million Korean won—so directly that it turns its own staff into “hard currency” in Korea’s matchmaking market.

Jane Street is even more outrageous: in 2025, its compensation pool is about $9.38 billion. If you divide that by 3,500 people, that comes to roughly $2.68 million per person.
Not only that—there are truly big-spending companies too, such as:
Citadel Securities: core positions with million-dollar annual packages.
Hudson River Trading: high-frequency trading roles with million-dollar packages are nothing unusual.
OpenAI: the median total compensation for software engineers is about $550,000+.
Anthropic: core research/engineering roles can reach the high six figures.
Nvidia: salaries may not be the most outrageous, but equity turns wealth-building into the most outrageous part of all.
Promise me—when we look for companies in the future, let’s pick ones like this, true communism, okay?