Zuckerberg salary crashes to $1 a year

When you're worth $27bn you can afford to take a $1 a year salary: especially if you've exercised a few stock options recently. Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg has declared his salary at just $1 a year for 2013 filings. It's a crushing base salary fall from more than $500,000 in 2012.

But it's in line with a growing trend of Silicon Valley bosses to ignore the monthly pay check and focus on the big picture. %VIRTUAL-SkimlinksPromo%