Wages is a proxy of how valuable your work is, but not a measure of how value your work is. To support a high salary something has to happen, either the product

Wages is a proxy of how valuable your work is, but not a measure of how value your work is. To support a high salary something has to happen, either the product sold is very expensive or it's being subsidized by investors. No company can pay its employees above what they are able to generate selling the product they worked on indefinitely.