Elon Musk reveals how much Apple is offering Tesla employees to jump ship
One
seriously overlooked detail from last week’s big Bloomberg report on
Apple’s car project was that Tesla CEO Elon Musk has revealed just how
far Apple is willing to go to bring his best workers over to Cupertino.
In fact, Musk actually told Bloomberg that Apple is “offering $250,000
signing…
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Elon Musk reveals how much Apple is offering Tesla employees to jump ship
Brad Reed
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One seriously overlooked detail from last week’s big Bloomberg report on Apple’s car project was that Tesla
CEO Elon Musk has revealed just how far Apple is willing to go to bring
his best workers over to Cupertino. In fact, Musk actually told Bloomberg that Apple is “offering $250,000 signing bonuses and 60 percent salary increases” for jumping ship.
Any way you slice it, that is a pretty aggressive pursuit on Apple’s part. Glassdoor.com tells us
that the average salary for a Tesla engineer is somewhere between
$95,000 and $121,000 depending on the kind of work they’re doing. For
absolute simplicity’s sake, let’s assume Apple tries to lure away an
engineer who now makes $100,000 year — this would entail offering him a
salary of $160,000 per year as well as a signing bonus that’s
two-and-a-half years’ worth of pay.
This is a two-way street, however, and Tesla has been aggressive in its own right poaching Apple employees. Earlier reports have indicated that Tesla has stolen away
more employees from Apple than it has from any rival car company, which
just shows how important software will be to future Tesla offerings.
Of
course, the companies could just eliminate all these poachings by
merging, but that’s a development we probably won’t hold our breath for
given Apple’s traditional aversion to huge acquisitions.
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