New York (CNN Business) Jeff Bezos, the richest person in the world, has made the same $81,840 salary for two decades. Bezos has received $1.6 million in security-related services and business travel each year since 2010 and at least $1.1 million since 2003 when the company first started reporting security expenses as part of Bezos' total compensation. Amazon says its security costs are "especially reasonable in light of his low salary and the fact that he has never received any stock-based compensation." Several tech CEOs have taken low salaries , including Steve Jobs who took just $1 every year (except for 2001, when Apple gifted its founder a private jet plane). Former Oracle CEO Larry Ellison used to take $1 in salary but was routinely among America's highest-paid CEOs because he took home a ton of stock awards.

Source: CNN April 11, 2019 13:18 UTC