Netflix's top-payed employees make around $1m and have 10-15 years at the company. They're programmers. Google has similar top-payed, where the average is 20 years or so at Google (Google is an older company).
CEO Reed Hastings' unusual strategy includes freedom, responsibility and transparency. Brutal honesty, work is for money, a company is for money. He doesn't force benefits on employees because they wouldn't all agree with this.
Employees are given tasks and judged in how they complete it, not by just hours.
Netflix currently has massive profit margins, unlike something like Amazon (tiny margins so they couldn't pay like this). Netflix is a cash rich company. The payment scheme looks great or bad depending on if it's a bull or a bear market, when comparing with employees of stock payment companies. Cash also means you pay taxes.
A Facebook director signs a contract for $3.5m worth of META stock over 4 years at current stock value. It stock goes up or down, they make more or less.