That compensation divided among Uber's approximately 27,000 employees results in about $3,000 per employee, but Uber's employees are probably mostly software engineers, so $3,000 per person is mostly not life-changing.

A quick googling says that 3 million people "drive for Uber." Paying them what the high-flying executives make would mean a few dollars per person.

I completely understand the impulse to question the huge disparity in salaries, but for the most part, executives that get paid that much work at gigantic companies, where hundreds of millions of dollars is an almost irrelevant pay increase when distributed across all of the employees.