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I can't say anything about the 'per week' or similar time interval units, but hasn't Steve Jobs created huge amounts of wealth for society through jobs creation/economic trades? and for that has been worth his salary? (that is only one example...)

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Steve Jobs owned billions of dollars in Apple and Disney and after 2003 earned no salary or other compensation from either (aside from the cost of operating his aircraft which was a few hundred thousand dollars a year). He is a bad example as I was talking about salary.

Stock is generally viewed as part of compensation, no-one's talking purely about salary here and the higher you go on the corporate ladder, the less important salary becomes.

I'm well aware. He wasn't compensated with stock, options, or any other sort of payment. After 2003 Apple gave him nothing besides travel expenses.

Thanks, I wasn't aware of that, however he did receive $74.75 million in stock in 2003, which was worth a lot of money, and the travel expenses included a $90 million jet!

So he received a lot of compensation in kind (and was probably worth it to Apple).

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