They can pay the CEO a salary or they can give shares to the CEO-- that's quite standard because they feel that that makes the CEO a shareholder.

他们可以给他发工资或分给他股份,这是惯常的做法,因为他们觉得这样,可以把首席执行官变为股东

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In the U.S., where the average CEO makes about three times the salary of his French, German or Japanese counterpart (according to Towers Perrin, a compensation consultancy), most boards wouldn't dare put specific remuneration packages to a shareholder vote (and they aren't required to).

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These long-term incentives, which have been widely used in the Netherlands for the last decade, can make up anywhere from 10% to over 50% of an executive's total compensation -- at the CEO level, options can be worth more than the salary-plus-bonus cash compensation.

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