Execs who are heavily compensated in equity also benefit from reducing their wage salaries to minimize tax liability exposure

There is no winning with some folks. Execs raise salary, they are bad. Execs lower salary, they are bad.

> Execs who are heavily compensated in equity also benefit from reducing their wage salaries to minimize tax liability exposure

That makes as much financial sense as a buying a $20 bill with a $100 bill.

7 examples out of how many companies?

Do you think that Business Insider's list of 7 is the entire list?

I know 2 CEOs who aren't on that list who took pay cuts. If I told BI about it, that's not enough for them to publish an errata on the article.