This is better than many U.S. states, where the highest-earning public employee is a football coach.

But let's also consider that in private industry, a great many people in finance make more money than almost every professor. In almost every major sport, a backup professional athlete makes more money than the U.S. general in charge of security and of every military asset and operation in the entire Mideast. How many professions make more than doctors who save lives daily? Than teachers?

The issue is that the current labor marketplace does not allocate resources to those who provide the most benefit to society.

EDIT: Added the last 2 paragraphs