In other words, doing what's absolutely necessary and expedient in order to make profit and not flagrantly disregarding certain portions of tax law?
And in the case of tech companies such as Apple, the "high paying jobs" bit comes with an extra bit of irony since they were doing the exact opposite to a criminal extent.
Color me unimpressed.
[1] http://www.salarylist.com/company/Apple-Salary.htm [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_United_S...
As Apple's aptly demonstrated, it doesn't pay those salaries for any other reason than that it must, and even then it will break the law to pay less.
Finally, most US Apple employees are located in California, where cost of living is substantially higher than most of the country. There's far less disparity in your figure when taking cost of living & the common academic pedigree of Apple's employees into account.