when you have been around for a while you learn that senior people know something worth paying extra for. Then you start to demand only that until you discover all the senior people retire close to the same time and you don't have any organization depth coming up behind them.

Which is why when my department asked to hire a senior person to replace someone who transferred on leadership made us hire an entry level person to train up (then the next person left and we were allowed to hire a senior person).