According to Google's annual filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Brin and Page, the company's cofounders asked that their base salaries each be reduced to $1 per year in 2004.
Since then, Google's compensation committee has offered them market-competitive salaries annually, which they continue to decline.
While they also forgo cash bonuses based on their individual and company performance and do not hold any stock options, Google stock units, or other contingent stock rights, Page is currently worth an estimated $34.9 billion and Brin is worth an estimated $34.3 billion.
In a filing with the SEC in June, it was revealed that Twitter's interim CEO receives no compensation for his role. This is of little financial consequence to Dorsey, whose current estimated net worth comes in around $2.3 billion.
"At your request, you have agreed to forego any compensation for your role as Interim Chief Executive Officer until the Compensation Committee agree upon a compensation package for you at the same time that it conducts its annual assessment and setting of executive compensation later in the year. Until a compensation package is finalized, you will be entitled to no cash or equity compensation for your services as Interim Chief Executive Officer," the document reads.
As in previous years, Oracle reported to the SEC that Ellison, now executive chairman and CTO, took home a salary of $1 in 2014.
Meanwhile, new co-CEOs Safra Catz and Mark Hurd, who took over in September, 2014, each took home a $950,000 salary last year in addition to other compensation.
So how does Ellison continue to add to his estimated $49.2 billion net worth? Compensation Ellison received last year included $65 million in stock option awards, $740,000 in non-equity compensation, and $1.5 million for other compensation, most of which went towards security-related costs for Ellison's home.
According to Tesla Motors' SEC filings, Musk, whose net worth is valued at an estimated $13 billion, was required by California law to be paid a minimum wage of $37,000 in fiscal year 2015.
The filing also noted, though, that Musk has never accepted and currently does not accept his salary. He also declines receiving a bonus, stock awards, option awards, or any other compensation.
The Facebook CEO went from receiving a half-a-million-dollar salary in 2012 to just $1 a year in 2013, according to the company's most recent SEC filing.
He also forwent receiving a bonus or stock awards. Zuckerberg received a little more than $600,000 in other compensation last year for costs related to his personal use of a chartered aircraft, and his estimated net worth is currently valued around $41 billion.
For years the Yahoo cofounder and "Chief Yahoo" has earned a salary of $1, and according to this year's SEC filing, after returning to the board in 2014, he received no additional compensation. He also does not participate in any of the equity incentive programs Yahoo provides to our other executive officers. Still, his estimated net worth comes in around $2.8 billion.
Yelp reported to the SEC that its CEO has decreased his base salary over the years from $300,000 in 2012, to $37,501 in 2013, to $1 in 2014.
He also declines receiving option awards. Stoppelman received $67,000 in other compensation last year, most of which went to paying his executive assistant, and is currently worth an estimated $222 million.
According to the company's SEC filing, in 2007, the Whole Foods co-CEO reduced his salary to $1 and elected to forgo any bonus and stock option awards and other compensation.
When Lampert took over as Sears' CEO in 2013, he took a salary of $1, the company's SEC filing reports, which he continues to take. He also continues to forgo bonuses, non-equity incentive plans, and most other compensation offered to Sears executives.
Lambert isn't struggling to get by, though. With an estimated net worth of about $2.6 billion, Lampert received almost $6 million in stock awards last year.
Capital One's founder and CEO hasn't received a salary for almost 20 years now. But his annual compensation last year according to the company's annual SEC filing totaled more than $19 million.
Among other things, in 2014 Fairbanks received a more than $4 million bonus, more than $13 million in stock awards, $1.75 million in option awards, and almost $100,000 in other compensation, which included about $70,000 for the personal use of a driver who also provided personal security.
Taking over for Richard Kinder in June as Kinder Morgan's CEO, Steven Kean continued Kinder's tradition of taking a $1 salary, the company's SEC filing notes. He also declines receiving an annual bonus, non-equity incentive compensation, and stock awards.
In 2009, Hayne, Urban Outfitters' president and CEO, requested that his base salary be set at $1 a year, the company's SEC filing notes. A portion of his estimated $1.41 billion net worth comes from his performance bonus for fiscal year 2015, which totaled $500,000.
He also received about $30,000 towards his automobile and life insurance premiums from Urban Outfitters.
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