And financially, building the club, Infrastructure, improvements in players, coaches, even consistency of on field football (16+ years in Europe) he has all right to be at least in the conversation.
For all the complaints re Levy, the fact that United, Chelsea & Liverpool haven't updated their stadiums at this stage is almost dereliction of duty by their executives.
Him being highest paid is a total red herring btw (typical of how easy Spurs fans are to wind up), zero fudging chance he's higher paid than the City Chairman (because his salary isn't from City), many other clubs, Liverpool, United, Leicester, etc. have had executives from a broader group that wouldn't get their full salary/income from the club and/or large part of the income would be dividends (ENIC/Levy don't take dividends, they re-invest in club)