I agree that some EA jobs in ops pay above market. But there has been a community-wide shortage of ops staff for over five years, so the salaries help retain people who would otherwise go for jobs outside EA. Often people’s alternative jobs are pretty good too. Note that an office manager at Google makes $85k. And some ops staff in EA have even stronger alternatives—working as a consultant, a programmer, a product manager. Plus this particular job is probably a pretty difficulty office manager job (working without a big local team, to set up a new office) And there has been recent inflation.
I agree that some EA jobs in ops pay above market. But there has been a community-wide shortage of ops staff for over five years, so the salaries help retain people who would otherwise go for jobs outside EA. Often people’s alternative jobs are pretty good too. Note that an office manager at Google makes $85k. And some ops staff in EA have even stronger alternatives—working as a consultant, a programmer, a product manager. Plus this particular job is probably a pretty difficulty office manager job (working without a big local team, to set up a new office) And there has been recent inflation.