He is not giving away his salary but the bonus. All CEOs of major companies make more money through bonuses and stock options than just salary. This guy gave away his bonus away. Not sure I have seen a lot of that. To contrast see this guy who virtually destroyed Acer and still took away $43M - http://allthingsd.com/20120622/ousted-acer-ceo-gianfranco-la...

Steve Jobs taking $1 per year would give the benefits to the shareholders, not the employees. It would be the same if Steve Jobs gives his salary millions to the Apple employees.

What Steve did at Apple certainly did benefit employees, they're all still employed after all. And I'd guess many are shareholders as well. Double bonus.