I have said many times - people with power never use that power to give themselves less of anything.
The fault likes not with the individual, who obviously feels she has justified every penny paid, and that will be paid as she takes gardening leave and drives around in her free car, but with the pay bodies that allow such salaries to be paid.
I have said before, and will say again, massive salaries are extremely simple to sort out, it goes like this -
Right Mr Candidate, you are applying for the ten-million-pound salaried job with my firm, wonderful.
I am delighted to give you the job in this basis -
You will perform to a pre-determined standard, and bring in a level of pre-determined profit into the business in the first year.
If you are successful, we will meet and re-negotiate your contract for another twelve months, which is not bound to increase in value.
Should you fail to meet the targets advised, I will reclaim the entire salary package minus twenty thousand pounds, which will in effect be your salary for the year, and I will dismiss you without notice.
Since you believe you are the 'right person for the job' as we like to say, I am sure that you will have the necessary belief in your ability to be sure you will succeed, and you will be happy to sign just here.
Should you not feel that your abilities match the conditions, then clearly you are not the 'right person', in which case, please ask the next candidate to come in, as you leave.
Thanks.
Now - what's wrong with that?