The median salary at Meta is ~$400,000/year. They can get away with this kind of intrusive behavior.
It starts with the insanely paid jobs and ends up with all companies in the US, unless Congress does something about it.
And that's median. IC6+ can and do have seven-figure packages.
Lots of folks there are basically counting down to
F.I.R.E. goals. Meta's absolutely going to lose people, but leadership's gone all-in on the bet that they can train AI replacements faster than that will happen.
This is capitalism's absolute end stage. Last chance to get out of the pit before the ladder gets pulled up forever.