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Salary is not the same thing as total compensation.



Very true.

Unless we are talking about Steve Jobs.


Jobs was given millions of dollars in stock options. His total compensation was far far beyond $1/year.


The last time he took options was 2003. His total compensation for the last 8 years has been $1/year.


Since 1997, he was paid $1/year in salary. But he certainly wasn't living in the poor house.

In 2001, the company gifted him a $90 million Gulfstream jet, and paid for all related expenses.

According to Apple’s proxy statement from February 2011, Jobs owned about 5.5-million shares of Apple stock. In addition, he owned about $5 Billion of Disney stock, which gave him an annual dividend of about $50 Million.




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