If you are responsible and accountable for $5B revenues and associated decisions, won’t you agree you deserve 0.5% of that revenue? This is generally accepted reasonable management fees for things like index funds. Your credit card company or your iOS platform or Uber takes much bigger cuts.
Recently I had been thinking what if we pay all elected officials this way, except as something like a multiplier on the median income in the country... GDP growth could be few getting a lot richer or many getting moderately richer.
Their pay increases would be inflation indexed and tied to "rising tides lift all boats"