A lot of CEO's take very little in salary.
“A lot of CEO’s take very little in salary.”
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-dollar_salary
The following people have been employed for annual salaries of one dollar:
Michael Bloomberg, former Mayor of New York City
Sergey Brin (Google)
Larry Ellison (Oracle Corporation)
Darren Entwistle (TELUS)
Richard Fairbank (Capital One Financial)
Lee Iacocca (Chrysler Corporation)
Muhammad Ali Jinnah (Founder of Pakistan), as the first Governor General of Pakistan, fixed his salary to be 1 rupee without any other compensation.
Steve Jobs (Apple), also did not take any alternative form of compensation (stock options, bonus, etc.) since 2003
John F. Kennedy, Former President of the United States
Richard Kinder (Kinder Morgan), also does not take any alternative form of compensation (stock options, bonus, etc.)
John Mackey (Whole Foods Market), who also does not take any alternative form of compensation (stock options, bonus, etc.)
N. R. Narayana Murthy (Co-Founder of Infosys)
Elon Musk (Tesla Motors)
Shaquille O’Neal (Reserve Officer in Miami Metro Dade Police)
Larry Page (Google)
Mark Pincus (Zynga)
Richard Riordan (Mayor of Los Angeles)
Henry Samueli (Broadcom Corporation)
Eric Schmidt (Google)
Arnold Schwarzenegger (former Governor of California)[citation needed]
Terry Semel (Yahoo!)
Sehat Sutardja (Marvell Technology Group)
Meg Whitman (Hewlett-Packard)
Jerry Yang (Yahoo!)
Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook)