[Wonnk13]

I'm only 27, but I think this is a case of great people have great salaries. It's that simple. Do partners at McKinsey or MDs at GS make a shitload of money? yes. But they were good enough to make the cut time and again to be promoted above their peer group. Plenty of rockstar individual contributors are paid above average, because they've demonstrated a disproportionately high value add to the organization.