Anyone know how much these types of employee at Pixar are paid?
Since they do such specialized work, and since there is a very limited supply of such talent (i.e. it takes many years of experience you can't get in school), it would be surprising if their salaries weren't extremely high.
When I worked at EA, we had technical artists come over from DreamWorks, Pixar, etc. But I don't know how much they were paid.