A marketing team at a well-established retail company launches a brilliant advertising campaign that results in a $5 million increase in company revenue for the year. Assuming the team members are on fixed annual salaries and have no pre-existing contractual clauses for performance-based bonuses tied to this campaign, which statement most accurately analyzes the primary financial destination of the profits generated from this new revenue?
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