Prosperity does not trickle down.
There is great debate in the news these days about tax cuts for the large corporations and the rich, and how, when they get it, that prosperity will trickle down to the workers and others further down the socioeconomic ladder. As much as some would like to believe that, unfortunately, it can never be practical. There is no incentive for people to share their prosperity other than the goodness of their hearts and, when they are in competition with their neighbors to see who has the higher net worth, that goodness is not easy to find.
To ensure that all the people of a state are prosperous, their prosperity needs to be tied to each other. In order to make this happen, in my world, the salary of highest paid employee of an organization will be no higher than 50 times the salary of it lowest paid employee. If the CEO wants to give him or herself a raise, that means that the person at the bottom gets a raise too.