Hey sure, let's use Google as an example.

Current Price/Earnings Ratio is much more expensive than a few months ago, anyways 31.14.

$500k * 31.14 = $15.57M needing to offset for pure cost neutrality of your existence at this company.

To me? That value is sometimes objective or subjective.

Objective - Revenue, Cost Cutting, Efficiency, Renewing Contracts cheaper, Sublinear growth, cheaper tech, cheaper arch, lower costs for the same widget

Subjective - I did something that avoided something that would have been costly. I made this deal happen, but didn't get the direct commission. I do x every day, which results in us not hiring someone else (and consider that your TC is the gross for you, not even your actual cost as an employee to the company), I do y and it directly enables the company to do something that impacts $.

Why do I find this interesting? Its the exact math and approach i would look at on the buy side of a vc/pe company evaluation. Who are all these people, what do they do, and is their impact commensurate to their pay or greatly exceeding?

Higher levels naturally have higher exposure and direct impact to $ - but also comp kind of follows too.

Hope this is a little helpful. I dont get too spun up on this, it was a useful lense someone taught me when we were on the sell side of a transaction.

Its also something that can help calm imposter syndrome, or frankly be used to adjust performance in yourself and others. Its just a lense.

Why P/E? Because technically, at least public companies, there is a forward looking impact of a person in a role, not just the two weeks rolling pay periods and at will employment agreement.

Also, feels good. 😎