[GJR]

What is the actual point of giving anyone $226m in pay? How would that motivate them to deliver any more..? Ratio of CEO:staff pay at 1000:1!

[PeterisP]

It's not to motivate a particular person to deliver more, it's to ensure that you're able to hire that person - if they would pay, for example, $2million, then no one with experience at managing decent size tech companies would apply as they can get a much better offer elsewhere.

Also, CEO compensation is effectively between the shareholders and the CEO - if the CEO is making the shareholders happy and they want to gift him $200m for no good reason, well, it's their right to do so, it's their money to spend or waste as they wish, not the employee's.

[GJR]

By doing so, don't you restrict the pool of talent that you can hire from?

[easytiger]

Why does Buffett get up and go to work in the morning?

[ta1243]

Why would someone work for $250m but not work for $150m? Or at that level of wealth work for free.

Surely it's just for keeping score

[aeyes]

Warren Buffets salery has been $100.000 for decades. And as far as I know Berkshire doesn't do stock based compensation at all, Buffet just holds the shares he always held.

[tabtab]

To beat competitors, not have tons of beemers for beemer sake. The motivation is relative. The 3 big "robber barons" of the late 1800's use to send each other brag-grams over who was richer.

[zymhan]

Certainly not because he needs to work for a living, or for anything at all.

[jason0597]

Certainly not for money, he lives in a simple house and drives a simple car. Probably because he just likes his job

[choppaface]

To keep score.