I read all they did was use the public info act and collect all of the date and compile it into a database.
which is fine, all the information is supposed to be public. but I don't see why any of this would be a problem. the most anyone's ever going to make is about 160 and that's at the highest level. considering the responsibility of those high level offices you want a decent pay rate to attract and retain quality people rather than have them go to the private sector. I'd rather see someone get a higher government salary than watch them leave their job to go work for a company directly affected by the policies they were enacting
government salaries are not that big of a deal. it's a drop in the bucket compared to the trillion and a half in defense spending and even compared to the amount of waste that comes about because of culture of offices/units/organizations being encouraged to use their entire budget by the FY end or lose it for the next year. that's what we need to worry about, not the take home for the people that actually work there