For executives, $174,000 is pretty shabby. High School Principals make more.
Congressmen and Judges should make $300,000 and the President $1 million
Executives are in charge of employees' lives, their livelihood and their present and future. Executives EARNED their position, their salary and their power and influence not by a one-time whimsy of misguided electors like Congress men/women do, but by years of evaluation by their peers.
High school principals are grossly overpaid, based on the results of surveys of achievements compared to high school graduates in other countries.
Congressmen should be aware of the salary they would get before running for the office. If they are not happy with the pay they get, they can not be expected to represent their constituents in an honest way and they should have the decency not to run for the office.
Judges like the one who give suspended sentence to the creep who abused his own daughter should be hanged by the neck alongside the creep they were so generous with.
I have no problem with your contention that the President is worth a million bucks a year. Even this one.