ABSTRACT
Some companies offer dual career paths. This means there is a management path where your career grows by supervising an increasing number of people and a separate path that allows the engineer to remain technical but make more money-up to a limit. Ultimately, the top managers make more money than any engineer, perhaps by as much as two orders of magnitude. The justification for this is that management is a force multiplier. Top-notch individuals leading lesser people can guide them to accomplish far more than the individuals ever could on their own. The theory is that wisdom, judgment, and leadership are the really important issues and are the truly distinguishing characteristics of the most valuable people.
