Originally Posted by Val
Originally Posted by JonLaw
If people within a market prefer businessmen more, because businessmen are inherently awesome or because businessmen shimmer with financial glory, then you rationally pay them more.

Maybe people value basking in the reflected dollar-saturated glow of their local wealthy businessmen.

Or maybe it's just that the businessmen make the salary decisions.

Then those salary decisions are definitely rational.

It makes sense to give yourself a really high salary if you like really high salaries.