Exactly. Just like big business has top CEOs being paid ridiculous money with huge parachutes attached. It was all well intended, and then got out of hand. Big time.
This isn't a CEO and it isn't a company. This is a corrupt, unaccountable political entity. The kind that liberals favor. Institutionalized theft.
You don't like the way a company pays it's help? Don't buy from them, get on their board and change them, or compete with them.
Taxpayers/serfs have no such remedies for out-of-control bureaucracies.