Originally Posted by
jonnyjetprop
I guess the bigger question is how much do you think a CEo should be paid?
As long as they're not getting infusions of taxpayer cash, I'd say it's a publicly owned company and whatever the shareholders want to pay their CEO, that's what he should get.
Or, more pithily: whatever the market dictates.
The flip side, of course, is "What should pilots get?". Answer: whatever they can negotiate, and whatever the profit statement of the company dictates. They're contracted labor, just like the CEO.