There are stories all over the news of top company officials that are receiving insane paychecks while companies are struggling just to make ends meet. On the other end of the corporate scale are those CEOs that are taking only $1 for a salary (and earning their income based on the company performance).
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Steve Jobs CEO of Apple, Inc Market Cap: 153.30B |
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Jeff Katzenberg DreamWorks Animation SKG (DWA) Market Cap: 2.68B |
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Richard Kinder Kinder Morgan Market Cap: 3.98B |
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Jerry Yang Yahoo, Inc. Market Cap: 31.05B |
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Eric Schmidt Google, Inc. Market Cap: 163.84B |
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Richard Fairbank Capital One Market Cap: 13.39B |
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Rob Glaser RealNetworks Market Cap: 928.81M |
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James Rogers Duke Energy Market Cap: 21.75B |
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John Mackey Whole Foods Market Market Cap: 2.94B |
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Bruce Berman Prepaid Card Holdings, Inc Market Cap: 30.98M |
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Bill Ford Ford Motor Company Market Cap: 10.43B (Currently Chairman but took $1 salary as CEO and has carried that over to Chairman) |
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Terry Considine Apartment Investment & Management Market Cap: 2.88B |
Interesting note - Lee Iacocca took a $1 a year salary in 1978 as chairman of Chrysler (it was an effort to lead by example and encourage the workers to also accept a salary cut).

















