Can things that happen to CEOs be extrapolated and applied successfully to regular workers? Companies already buy salary information from brokers. So they alr

Can things that happen to CEOs be extrapolated and applied successfully to regular workers? Companies already buy salary information from brokers. So they already know what the competition is paying and generally try to keep in line with that. And that's pretty much a type of collusion. If everyone seeks to pay "market rates" based on these salary reports, then everyone will aim to pay about the same amount.