Sorry, to clarify - 300k is a pay rate so far beyond what most people make that I'd consider it to fall under my caveat. Any person who is making enough money to be replaced with a well compensated manager leading three entry or low mid-level pay (120k for the manager, 60k each for the team member) is... sort of astounding. I don't know what level of productivity you'd need to hit to rationally be compensated at that level while other people get so little.

And to clarify a bit more, 11k for a person making 300k a year is just a single week's take home, so maybe a more measured response is just that this is equivalent (for a person making 300k to a person making 60k) as blowing 1k at vegas on a weekend.