In my observation (in larger tech companies), CEO compensation is like how some options trading courses market themselves - "markets go up, you make money, mark

In my observation (in larger tech companies), CEO compensation is like how some options trading courses market themselves - "markets go up, you make money, markets go down, you make money; it doesn't matter which way the markets go, you always making money." I have not seen a CEO ever take a huge financial loss or a huge cut regardless of whether the company did well or not. The CEOs somehow make a lot of money for themselves. Even when instituting pay/compensation cuts for the rest of the workforce, they make sure their part is on the paltry base salary component that's been negotiated in a way that bonuses and stocks always exceed this by several tens of times (if not larger). Guess what? They always get large bonuses and generous stock grants. The only tangible risk CEOs take, many a times with not much to worry about, is the risk of being fired but still exiting with a one time super nice golden parachute instead of continuing to extract a lot more money from the company.