For [0] and their total compensation calculation, have they included capital gains? The compensation shift from high-tax-rate wages to favorable-tax-rate stock options among the top-tier folks introduced $1/year CEOs, and then you have entire industries like software where stock options are frequently more important part of the compensation than wages.

Not only one gets a favorable tax treatment for long-term capital gains, they can also choose when to trigger those tax events, selling over 40 years instead of one swift transaction.