&gt; It&#x27;d be interesting if you could collaborate and bid for your salaries as a group and&#x2F;or make sure everyone got at least a minimum. It would be a failure if everyone in the group got the same amount.<p>This might or might not be a failure. The central cast of <i>Friends</i> legendarily all pulled very high salaries because they formed an informal 6-person labor union, a key principle of which was that everyone got the same pay.