BUt since it says she’s accepting a pvt sector “General Counsel” job, that could pay well upwards of $500K per year or even a great deal more, depending upon the company. Once she had any reasons at all to think about leaving DOJ, the temptations for a pvt sector salary may simply have been too great. It is not everyone’s dream to be Deputy Attorney General.
UMMMM yeah, now that I click on the article, I see it’s for WALMART, one of the largest companies in the world. Heck, yeah, they probably offered her quite a fortune to take that job.
Here is what the website abovethelaw.com said GCs averaged in 2013 (and Walmart is probably at the top of the scale):
Average base salary: $656,607, up 7.4 percent.
Average bonus: $1,117,400, up 50 percent.
Average bonus plus nonequity incentive compensation: $1,197,065, up 6.4 percent.
Average stock option award: $888,313, up 21 percent.
Average stock award: $2,350,219, up 64.8 percent.