[djf1]

To elaborate on the sibling, comparing multiples of your salary is irrelevant. The question is, how much does the company stand to gain by putting this CEO in place? Imagine this CEO is just 1% better than you; they've just made the company millions.

[mpdehaan2]

While that is true, they often suck too. Goes both ways.

Think about how much better, say, Cisco could be, than what Cisco is. And then what their execs get paid. There's a club at the top and they value weird things.

One employee's work can also make a company millions - I know in many cases many of my fellow developers have built things, often single-handed, that have made companies millions, and received less than $100k/year. The sales guy probably got a huge commission.

This is the system we should - as best we can - press against.

[bcoates]

I guess I'm missing the part where I'm supposed to care that CEOs are in the long, long line of people fleecing dumb investors.