Please stop pretending that you do.
Hint: the vast majority of his compensation is, and has always been, via stock grants.
You do understand that, because Apple is a public company, all of this information is literally public knowledge, right?
If you'd like to argue that stock grants are not part of a person's salary, that is a reasonable interpretation of the definition of "salary", but hardly relevant to the broader point, which is clearly not to assert that Timmy should open up his checkbook, but rather to illustrate how incredibly inane it is to suggest that a few hundred bucks a week for an hourly interpreter means anything at the scale Apple operates at.
[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2021-highest-paid-ceos/
Apple has 4,291 employees in the entire state of New York [1]
That's $61,500 per person.
The average salary for an "Apple Genius" (one of the people who work at apple stores?) in New York City is $53,230
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28573768
[1] https://www.apple.com/job-creation/
[2] https://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Apple_Genius/Salary...
It also changes the argument meaningfully in a second way: liquidity. Tim Cook can't just go sell all that stock right now, since that would cause a rather big panic and also rob him of a lot of its value. Which means he could not actually pay all those folks' salaries.
Whether my point is "interesting" is up to you. Whether it's factual isn't. It's factual.
