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Despite that Tim Cook belongs with 18 months in the company's management Apple among the shortest-tenured CEOs, he became the highest-paid CEO in the US according to CNBC. While Steve Jobs, founder and former CEO of the company Apple He received a symbolic salary of $1 a year and lived off of shares and other income from Pixar, thanks to which he managed to accumulate assets worth more than $6 billion, Tim Cook wearing the role of the new CEO AppHe doesn't skimp on the annual income. He surpassed the second highest-paid CEO, Larry Ellison of Oracle, who is among the 15 richest men in the world, by $25 million.

Moreover, now we are only talking about cash salary, which Tim Cook receives, but as you already know from our older articles, the CEO of the company receives Apple also considerable bonuses in the form of shares worth tens of millions of dollars. On March 24, 3 alone, he sold Tim Cook a total of 200 shares of the company Apple for a price ranging from $596,05 to $606,80, which added $119 to your account. Tim Cook However, of course, he does not decide on his salary or rewards himself, but everything is determined by the board of directors, to which the CEO is directly responsible.

  1. Tim Cook (Apple) — $95 million
  2. Larry Ellison (Oracle) — $70 million
  3. Ron Johnson (JC Penney) — $53 million
  4. Leslie Moonves (CBS Corporation) — $52 million
  5. Richard Adkerson (Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold) — $49 million
  6. Philippe Dauman (Viacom) — $43 million
  7. John Hammergren (McKesson Corporation) — $42 million
  8. Aubrey McClendon (Chesapeake Energy) — $39 million
  9. James Gallogly (James Gallogly) — $35 million
  10. David Simon (Simon) ProPerty Group — $35 million
  11. Robert Iger (Walt Disney) — $33 million
  12. Rex Tillerson (Exxon Mobil Corporation) — $30 million
  13. Michael Jeffries (Abercrombie & Fitch) — $29 million
  14. Rupert Murdoch (News. Corp) $28 million
  15. Louis Camilleri (Philip Morris International) — $28 million
  16. David Zaslav (Discovery Communications) — $27 million
  17. Brian Roberts (Comcast Corporation) — $27 million
  18. Miles White (Abbott Laboratories) — $27 million
  19. Ralph Lauren (Ralph Lauren Corporation) — $27 million
  20. Kieran Gallahue (CareFusion Corporation) — $25 million
  21. David Cote (Honeywell International) — $25 million

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