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How Much Do Severance’s Macrodata Refiners Get Paid?
Not in erasers and waffles, but in cold, hard cash.
While in real life, it matters enormously what information gets stored, sold, and manipulated, for our petty purposes, what the numbers represent in Severance is none of our business; all we care about is the act of moving data from one place to another, which is the main job description of both data-entry clerks and macrodata refiners. I looked for something that sounded comparable to Lumon’s macrodata refiners and found a job listing for an administrative data-entry associate for the Cardiovascular Research Foundation based in New York City. Getting the severance operation seems less invasive and time-intensive by comparison — Helena Eagan got the surgery the same morning she started as a refiner — but in lieu of controversial-medical-experiment salary data, let’s use top-secret security-clearance positions as a substitute.
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