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There may be no show more fun and frustrating to talk about thanSeverance.
When is Mark going to startreallyremembering things?
Whats up with thegoats?
More importantly, how much wouldIdo it for?
Admit it: Youre now wondering if they make more than you.
They probably dont … but maybe they do?
And if they made way,waymore?
Would that justify … whatever it is they do?
(Must be nice.)
Speaking for the rest of us, I wont know peace until I investigate.
The clear starting point is finding the closest real-life equivalent to amacrodata refiner.
So, what is macrodata refinement?
Mark describes the work as mysterious and important.
Categorize scary numbers all day?
Sounds like data entry to me.
(Monster Energy wasrecently hiringfor a data-entry clerk.)
Corporations and governments, and thus, the world,run on data.
Any data, really, but themore private, the better.
Next, we want to figure out where their work takes place.
By all indications, it is somewhere cold and remote.
Kier, PE 07450.
There is no state abbreviation for PE, but 07450 is a zip code in New Jersey.
Sounds mysterious and important (i.e., scary) to me.
We have our job title, location, and average salary figured out.
But lets not forget that this role requires agreeing toexperimental brain surgery.
There you have it.
By my demented yet unimpeachable estimations, the average salary for a macrodata refiner is $125,800.
What do we do now that we have the number?
So, I ask: Does that compensation feel right?
By contrast, theaverage hourly wagefor a CEO in New York is $75.05, or $156,100 annually.
Now that we know how much the refiners make, the amount of money seems beside the point.
Suddenly, my small, practical question is starting to feel frustratingly existential after all.
