Despite the fact that Steve Jobs's salary is only $ 1 per year, in 2006 he received (including shares) $ 646 million, Forbes magazine
reported , calling
Apple's CEO the highest paid director in the United States.
In this annual list of the largest payouts to directors of American companies, Steve Jobs is on the top line with a fabulous $ 646.6 million! In second place, with more than half the amount of money received ($ 321.6 million), is Ray Irani, the head of Occidental Petroleum is a petrochemical and oil and gas corporation, also engaged in coal mining and processing of agricultural raw materials.
In fifth place with $ 174.2 million is Terry Semel, head of
Yahoo . Right behind him, that is, in the sixth position, is Michael Dell with his $ 153.2 million, the newly returned
Dell director, and simply an amazing person who owns a company with assets of $ 5.4 billion.
Larry Ellison from
Oracle for the past year received $ 72.4 million and thus located on the 12th line of the list. John Chambers of Cisco, with his honestly received $ 71.3 million, is in 15th position, and at the same time closes a number of IT-related companies in the Top 25.
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Steve Ballmer proved that on behalf of the amount of payments does not depend - unlike Jobs, the director of
Microsoft brought the “beggarly” $ 980,000 into the house and nestled on the 481 line of the list.
However, Eric Schmidt, the CEO of
Google , was unlucky even more than Ballmer - $ 560,000 and 488 place the list ... well, or 12 from the end :)