Fine. Even if they average $200,000, you are still looking at a quarter billion dollars a year. That will still show up in your quarterly results.

> Even if they average $200,000

You’re still way high. It might help to step outside the software engineering bubble once in a while and learn what folks outside your field are paid.

LinkedIn probably has >1,000 employees who make around US$50,000 a year or less.

Speaking of assuming too much: You have no idea who I am, or my employment history.

The top-line going even lower still doesn't materially change the calculus. Those people cost money to pay, and multiply it by almost 1,000 people and it makes a real difference.

> The top-line going even lower still doesn't materially change the calculus.

There’s a big difference between $50-100M and $460M, almost an order of magnitude difference, so yes it does change the dynamics.

> Speaking of assuming too much

I made no assumptions about who you are or your employment history, I stuck to the figures presented. Software engineers are barely as high as the figure you first provided for fully loaded salary on average, hence the comment about the software bubble. The rest of the LinkedIn org makes no where near those numbers on average.