I think one of the big disconnects comes when employees see some big numbers about their company compared to their salary.

When you see a number like $1 million in profit and you look at your $35,000 per year salary. That shows a big disconnect. But it is the numbers in between that could answer that to some degree. For example that might be on $25 million in revenue, meaning only 4% profit. They may not consider that along withe the 199 people working for the company that only equates to $5,000 profit per employee.

While the reality would be nice if there was higher wages and maybe more profit. But this is the reality for a company I used to work for, maybe not exact numbers, but reasonably close. Many companies I think probably run on thinner margins than this, but because of the big numbers that headline people do not truly understand how small changes can bring down a company.