Fuggetaboutit! This is more likely your endgame:
After five years of litigation, a federal judge has OK’d a $415 million settlement in a case over an alleged civil conspiracy by leaders of top Silicon Valley companies to put a lid on tech worker salaries.
However, U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh halved the $81 million in attorney fees sought by the lawyers who pursued the San Jose case against Apple Inc., Google Inc., Intel Corp. and Adobe Systems Inc., finding that the requested amount would be a “windfall,” Reuters reports.
As shown by emails sent by executives including Apple founder Steve Jobs, the companies participated in a no-poaching conspiracy that——because they declined to hire each other’s high-tech employees—had the effect of keeping salaries down, the plaintiffs said.
The settlement will provide about $5,800 each to 64,000 technology workers, according to the Associated Press and the San Jose Mercury News.