In article om,
Too_Many_Tools wrote:


The stockholders would get a larger dividend if the CEO got a smaller
salary.

The salaries generally hover around $1 million related to
Congress trying to fix things via tax regs. The total pay gets much
bigger largely because of the results stock options and such, again the
result of governmental action to "tie the interests of the honchoes to
those of the stockholders". (Never for a minute thinking that maybe the
fact that the CEOs are making 90% of their money off the options might
lead to play games to increase the stock value...)
Anyway, you could take the CEOs salary part to zero tomorrow and not
do all that much for the dividend.