Salary Facts

Steve Jobs' annual salary was $1, just enough to keep company health benefits.

Judge Judy makes $45 million a year.

A typical full-time worker in the US with a four-year college degree earns about 65% more than a worker with only a high-school diploma, a gap that has remained remarkably consistent for decades.

In 2006, the CEO of Whole Foods reduced his salary to $1 a year, donated his entire portfolio to charity, and set up a $100,000 fund for staff facing personal problems.

John F. Kennedy never kept a single government paycheck in his entire political career. Not as a congressman. Not as a senator. Not as president. His presidential salary alone was $100,000 a year — about $1 million today — and he donated every cent to charity, including the United Negro College Fund and the Boy Scouts.

In the movie 'The Wizard Of Oz', Toto the dog's salary was $125 a week, while Judy Garland’s was $500 a week.

In 1994, the Friends cast each made $22,500 per episode. Warner Bros. tried to negotiate with them individually. The cast refused. They bargained as a group or not at all. Jennifer Aniston and David Schwimmer voluntarily took pay cuts so all six earned equally. By the final season: $1 million per episode each. They still earn $20 million a year each from reruns. The show ended 22 years ago.

$700 million. That's what Shohei Ohtani's contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers is worth - the richest deal in sports history. But right now, he takes home just $2 million per year. He deferred $680 million of his own salary so the Dodgers could use that money to sign other players and build a championship team around him.