Compliance is calculated with previous years costs

No, that’s just what you spent last year.

Marketing is VERY easy to assign a dollar amount to.

It’s easy to see how much it costs. It’s very hard to determine exactly how much additional revenue any particular campaign creates.

They know what you’re worth

Pick anyone at the C-Level. How much revenue do they bring in? What’s the ROI of a CFO?

Your examples are all commoditized and measurable. Many roles are not this quantifiable.

There is NO JOB in which you are paid to do something of no financial value.

Compliance, marketing, social outreach, branding.

Putting a $ amount on these and other similar roles is very difficult.

But I agree, if the value added is known to be zero or negative then usually no-one is paid to do it.

There are no unprofitable positions or tasks.

Not when they are set up, but they can become unprofitable over time, and get overlooked.

Every job has a metric showing how much money every single task they do creates.

Management accountants would love to do this. In practise you can only do this for low level, commoditised roles.

Depends. Are you storing and consuming your data or someone else’s?

Your data -> Native apps

Their data -> Web apps