I think anyone would agree that there are plenty of CEOs who happened to get their jobs just as pipelines come through, the economy rebalances in their favor, long-term HRD plans come to fruition etc. but they get all the credit anyway
I have some AMZN stock. I wouldn't trade Bezos for someone cheaper. Would you?
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-typical-amazon-worker-...
Companies this year are reporting their CEO pay in relation to the compensation of a median worker for the first time as a result of a 2015 rule mandated by the Dodd-Frank act. Amazon Chief Executive Jeff Bezos recorded total compensation of $1,681,840 in 2017, almost all of which is money paid for personal security — Bezos drew a salary of $81,840 and received no additional stock. Bezos’s compensation is 59 times the median Amazon worker’s.
He doesn’t need to draw a fat salary or get more stock, he already owns more than $110,000,000,000 in stock.
I think he is atypical, and so not a good representative example