"Elite brain" isn't some clean up hitter lighting up code or architecting for you. Elite brain is CTO, or EVP of technology. In terms of e.g., basketball, the Micky Arison of Apple is undoubtedly Steve Jobs, so LeBron is someone like Jony Ives. I'm quite sure Jony is walking away with way more than $20M after designing the iPod, iPhone and iPad (some speculate it's somewhere in the $150-200 Million range).
Elite brawn (elite NFL player): 20M / year.
Elite brain (elite programmer): (way)<1M / year.
Note: I didn't compare brawn to say, Zuckerberg, because that would be more like comparing the owners of the team.
Just my $0.02.