A number of top executives in large businesses and governments have worked for a one-dollar salary.[1][2][3] Many businessmen who have taken one-dollar salaries have been found to receive millions of dollars in alternative compensation.
During the early 1900s, "Dollar-a-year men" were business and government executives employed by multiple governments, mainly during wartime for a salary of one dollar, to help manage the government. During World War I, about 1,000 such people were employed by the United States.[4] While only receiving a dollar salary from the government, most executives had their salaries paid by the companies.
Notable one-dollar salary earners Edit
The following people have been employed for annual salaries of one dollar:
Sergey Brin (Alphabet Inc.)[32]
Jon Corzine (former Governor of New Jersey)[33]
Jack Dorsey (Twitter)[34]
Robert Duggan (Pharmacyclics)[35]
Larry Ellison (Oracle Corporation)[34]
Darren Entwistle (TELUS)[36]
Richard Fairbank (Capital One Financial)[37]
David Filo (Yahoo!)[34]
William Clay Ford Jr. (Ford Motor Company)[37]
Richard Hayne (Urban Outfitters)[34]
Herbert Hoover, (former President of the United States)[38]
Lee Iacocca (Chrysler Corporation)[39][40]
Steve Jobs (Apple)[41][42][43]
John F. Kennedy (former President of the United States)[38]
William Knudsen (Chairman of the Office of Production Management)[44]
Jan Koum (Whatsapp)[45]
Edward Lampert (Sears Holdings)[34]
F. Thomson Leighton (Akamai)[46]
John Mackey (Whole Foods Market)[47]
Evan Spiegel (Snap)[47]
N. R. Narayana Murthy (Infosys)[48]
Elon Musk (Tesla Motors, SpaceX)[49]
Larry Page (Alphabet Inc.)[32]
Vikram Pandit (Citigroup)[50]
Mark Pincus (Zynga)[51]
Richard Riordan (Mayor of Los Angeles)[52]
Henry Samueli (Broadcom Corporation)[53]
Eric Schmidt (Google)[32]
Arnold Schwarzenegger (former Governor of California)[54]
Terry Semel (Yahoo!)[37]
Jeremy Stoppelman (Yelp)[34]
Sehat Sutardja (Marvell Technology Group)[55]
Meg Whitman (Hewlett-Packard)[56]
Jerry Yang (Yahoo!)[57]
Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook)[58]