[maxxxxx]

Where is the cutoff? If shareholders care about the CEO salary they also should care how much 20000 people like me make.

[JumpCrisscross]

> Where is the cutoff?

Where the Board stops hiring and delegates to management.

[jimbobimbo]

Shareholders hire CxO level people to deal with day-to-day minutiae of running the company. There're other metrics (see SEC filings) that help shareholders gauge whether CxO people are doing their job.