Um, only that analogy isn't at all accurate to the situation.
Say you're one of 450 people on the planet that can do a certain job, and you happen to be in the upper-echelon of that group. Say there are millions and millions of dollars at stake. And there are 30 possible employers, a few who would definitely, love to pay you %9 more to come pay for them.
I don't know where jazz fans got this fantasy that we'll pay people what we want to. We'll pay what the market says we will. And if I'm Phoenix or Boston, and I find out I can get Hay for 11 or 12 million, I'd do it in a second. Why not? Because we'd prefer to pay him 10?