They'll keep depressing down other employees wages to continue increasing their wages at the top to "aTRact THe bESt taLeNt".
Attracting best talent phrase is used when a tech company pays slightly above average to developers. I haven’t herd such phrase applied to C-suits. Hiring and compensation for top managers is much less open but one of justification I’ve heard is that CEO decisions affect billions so they should earn millions. This doesn’t make much sense to me but there should be a reason why shareholders ready to spend a lot on executives.
FT do a nice overview of the top reasons in the below article: