The classic view of employee compensation holds that engineers and scientists can never earn as much salary as business executives and sales people. This theorem can now be supported by a mathematical equation based on the following two postulates:
Postulate 1: Knowledge is Power.
Postulate 2: Time is Money.
As every engineer knows : Power = Work / Time
Since Knowledge = Power, and Time = Money, we have:
Knowledge = Work / Money
Solving for Money, we get:
Money = Work / Knowledge
Thus, as Knowledge approaches zero, Money approaches infinity, regardless of the amount of Work done.
Conclusion: The Less you Know, the More you Earn.
---------------A Final Thought ...
"I can’t afford to pay them any other way."
- Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919), U.S. industrialist, philanthropist. In reply to a banker’s question, "How can you afford to pay your men so well?" Quoted in: Burton J. Hendrick, Life of Andrew Carnegie, vol. 1, ch. 15, sct. 2 (1932)