5 Tech CEOs With Fattest Pay Checks
#3 Tim Cook, Apple – $143.8m
Tim Cook who took over from Steve Jobs as CEO of Apple in August 2011, was granted 1 million restricted stock units that start paying out in 2016. He made nearly $140 million in restricted stock profits in 2012 on grants that date back to 2008 and 2010, before he took over as CEO.
#2 Mel Karmazin, Sirius XM Radio - $255.3m
Melvin Karmazin is an American executive. He co-founded and was the president of Infinity Broadcasting and eventually became the president and CEO of CBS. From 2008-2012, he was the CEO of Sirius XM Radio. He stepped down from running Sirius last December, and received a $9.5m bonus. His was the largest bonus in the 10 top-paid CEOs. It was his share options that handed him most of his compensation – 120m of them worth more than $244m.
#1 Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook – total compensation $2.27bn
Mark Zuckerberg is the highest paid tech CEO in the list. His total compensation for 2012 was nearly $2.3 billion,more than twice that of the next-highest paid CEO.
Almost all of Zuckerberg's compensation comes from Facebook's IPO. On the day Facebook went public, Zuckerberg exercised 60 million stock options worth nearly $2.3 billion. He also received a base salary of $500,000 for the year, though starting this year, his salary changed to the symbolic $1 a year.
