Today's Star Tribune had an item in a sidebar of the Business section on a lawyer moving from a corporate job to private practice.
He wanted to stop managing lawyers in court and be in court himself. Prior to his corporate job he was in the state attorney's office, "where the top pay for a lawyer was $116,000, about what new associates make in the Twin Cities' largest law firms."
I don't know why so many can justify stratospheric salaries for the high level executives, but begrudge the current pay of those on the factory floor or in state and local government.
