Can anyone identify the CEOs of public companies, or their Presidents that would not take home a salary check regardless if the company they worked for had either a loss or a profit or a drop in share price?
I don't think so.
Salaries are a cost of doing business and businesses may not initially make a profit, but that doesn't preclude the employees from taking compensation. There is a cost for creating innovation and it is borne in front of sales and profits, but when it all clicks...it invevitably gets reduced to a line item in a filing and everyone forgets the effort it took to do something new when sales and profits are being booked.
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