Do you honestly NOT think CEOs cap the salaries of every single one of their employees? Have you never seen or been a part of a company with a salary structure? CEOs determine the pay of everyone at every level in that company and then they or upper management who want to become CEOs some day serve on boards who hire and set the salary and perk levels for CEOs. Remember your theory of relativity, if you want to really understand the whole picture you have to look at BOTH sides of it. The sturg I used to know would be willing to do that.