Steve Jobs was an outlier. It's not useful to use him as an example if you are talking about CEOs in a general sense. Some CEOs might be worth x100 the average

Steve Jobs was an outlier. It's not useful to use him as an example if you are talking about CEOs in a general sense. Some CEOs might be worth x100 the average salary. A small few are exceptional, many are middle of the road, and some probably drag the company backwards (e.g. Ballmer at Microsoft).