"It's funny, but when people talk about CEO compensation, they refer to the value created by the company, yet when they talk about e.g. office cleaner compensat

"It's funny, but when people talk about CEO compensation, they refer to the value created by the company, yet when they talk about e.g. office cleaner compensation, they talk about the market price of labour." Inasmuch as we are talking about either of them, the discussion of CEO involves fairly high level abstractions about jobs and tasks that most people have never done at a scale they have never done it at. So I think it makes sense that you have a deeper, more abstract discussion of value. On the other hand, all of us have cleaned an office/room/building. We've all cleaned toilets and vacuumed floors and washed a kitchen. There's no reason for abstraction or analogy or depth - we all know how it works so we can just cut to the chase.