Tie congressional/presidential salaries to average American income and employment rate.

Congress can vote itself a pay raise. Let us replace this with a government that is rewarded for making decisions that increase employment.
Congressmen make about $174,000, the average American makes $27,041, and 8.5% are unemployed.
Let us instead give congress ten times the average American’s salary, or $270,410. Then reduce that amount by 4% for every percent of unemployment.
This would mean if unemployment reaches 25%, Congress makes no money until it goes down. At 8.5% (current) congress would make a similar amount of money ($178,000). At 5%, Congress would make more money ($216,328).
This would insure they would work to educate and employ Americans, instead of being paid to sit on party dogma.