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I'll tell you this, I saw that my firm was raking in 75-80 lakhs for a mandate on which I did the majority weight lifting. Like 80% of the work I did, sacrificing my waking hours and holidays and family stuff.
Let's assume the whole 75-80 lakhs is not attributable to me, even then on the lower end lets say 25 lakhs, the firm has almost covered my year's base pay - in 15-20 days of my work. What about the rest of the year.
They were making god knows how many X of my yearly pay off me, while treating me like shit, denying me leaves, making it difficult for me to attend funerals of close family members, yelling at me, insulting me.
It really inspired me, the pay I was getting and the money they were making off me to quit the firm and start on my own. Now I make more than my pay in the firm and work significantly less hours.