Salary isn't an indicator of competence or skill/ability.
It just means some numpty is willing to pay that amount.
If salary indicated competence, we wouldn't have CEOs of huge corporations trashing their brand and driving away their customer base with SJW bullshit.
Jon Stewart made an estimated $25-30M a year in 2013.
Noah was making an estimated $5-8M a year before Trump boosted his ratings and Comedy Central began forking over $16M a year in 2017.
https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/celebs/a36511958/trevor-noah-net-worth/
Salary isn't an indicator of competence or skill/ability.
It just means some numpty is willing to pay that amount.
If salary indicated competence, we wouldn't have CEOs of huge corporations trashing their brand and driving away their customer base with SJW bullshit.
In television, salary is an indication of how much advertising dollars a personality is capable of pulling in.
2.5M viewers are worth a lot more than 350,000, especially when the entire goal is to brainwash voters between the ages of 18-50.
Technically.
But in the real world of the idiot left, SJW virtue signaling can also drive up a dumbass's salary.
Look at us! Look at how much we pay this racial/behavioral quota checkbox!!!