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Tim Cook gets $12.3M for watching Apple while Jobs was out

by Michael Grothaus (Dec 29th, 2009)

Apple COO Tim Cook has received $12.3 million in Apple stock for stepping in as CEO during Steve Jobs absence earlier this year. Considering its been a rough couple of years for the economy and many CEOs still got large salaries for doing very little, it's nice to see Cook being rewarded for, ...

Jobs total compensation a bit more than $1 per year

by Mat Lu (May 4th, 2007)

Steve Jobs' $1 per year salary is famous, but as everybody already knew that's hardly the whole story. According to Forbes, Jobs was the highest-paid CEO in 2006 in terms of "total compensation," taking home approximately $646 million (which is almost double number two on the list)! This was ...