When the CEO of Worldwide Financial lowered his 2007 salary of around $140 million to around $100 million in 2008, and when Lehman Brothers CEO in the same period raised his salary from around $40 million to over $70 million, I don’t think too many people were sobbing for those poor rich people when their businesses went under.
Only sports/movie/TV/singer stars get salaries like that. Executives mostly make capital gains off stock options.