[gordner]

Anything other than "it's worth what the market will pay" would require a monumental culture shift, and to what?
A better question would be at what point does compensation become surreal to the point of being sort of offensive, because the offended doesn't make that rare atmosphere. That's a shifting target of course.
Mbtarga's example above seems reasonable to me, 2 Mil per year salary is not ridiculous, and bonus based on company performance, ie stocks etc, is huge in that example, but that's down to negotiations with the board, and what you can do with the company.