If you make $150K/year, that's still ten years of pay. We can discuss how much of a multiplier is reasonable for being punitive, but it seems rather obvious that a week in jail does not reasonably cost you ten years of Silicon Valley senior engineering wages.
For anyone who is not blessed as a programmer and merely earns the average (median) of $36,0000 year, we'd be talking about 40+ years of lost wages.
Yes, governments should be incentivised to not arrest people who are innocent. Go try to reform your local judicial system so that innocent people aren't arrested.
For anyone who is not blessed as a programmer and merely earns the average (median) of $36,0000 year, we'd be talking about 40+ years of lost wages.