It used to be that CEOs of large companies were not expected to make this much. Her base salary would have been typical in the old days but not the rest of it.

It used to be that CEOs of large companies were not expected to make this much. Her base salary would have been typical in the old days but not the rest of it. The change occurred in the 1990s when the CEOs of companies like GM looked at the CEOs of companies like Oracle and figured, we are bigger than they are so I should be worth at least that much money.