- MightyDuckK
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Codeword is ... "codeword". Doh!
Also, now, Alliance FTW!
I've been in the software biz for 17 years so I'm familiar with salaries there.
Figure base salaries are competitive - admin/secretaries $40-70K DOE, QA/Tech Support/Doc $45-85K DOE, Graphics/Programmers $75-150K DOE, and exec's $140-$250K DOE. Figure annual bonus anywhere from 5% to 20%, either in cash or stock.
The stock though - people who were there when M$ bought them probably converted their stock to M$ stock. In the 90s, that meant REAL MONEY. They have probably all vested all the stock options they were given, so that may well be done and they're just getting their salary and various bonuses. Those since either got MIcrosoft shares at market value (no big deal), or (recently) Bungie shares again (worthless since Bungie is a privately held company).