Top business salaries were rarely more than 20 or 30 times higher&#160;than average wages, and for most people differentials were far less. Thus, the income of doctors and lawyers used to be about five times higher than that of manual workers, not ten times or more, as they are today.
但所有这些都有一个限度：维持顶端和底端的某种联系。顶端企业薪酬很少有超过平均工资二三十倍的时候，对大部分人来说，收入差距要小得多。因此，医生和律师的收入通常要比劳动力高出5倍，而不会像如今那样高出10倍甚至10倍以上。