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The 17 Highest-Paid CEOs In Tech

Madeline Stone Aug 5, 2014, 02.29 AM

While some tech CEOs, including Facebook head Mark Zuckerberg and Google cofounders
Larry Page and Sergey Brin, have opted to receive a $1 annual salary, others are still bringing in
the big bucks.
The New York Times recently put together a list of the 200 highest-paid CEOs in America.
Many of them run tech companies.
Only chief executives leading companies with a market capitalization of at least $1 billion were
considered.
While longtime CEOs like Larry Ellison and Marc Benioff are no strangers to lists like this one,
there were some surprises.

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#17 Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen was paid $15.7 million in 2013, up from $12 million the
previous year.

Compensation breakdown:
Salary: $941,667
Bonus: $1,638,500
Perks: $19,211
Stock: $13,148,100
Options: $0

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#16 Verizon head Lowell McAdam took home $15.8 million in 2013.

Compensation breakdown:
Salary: $1,480,769
Bonus: $4,125,000
Perks: $780,874
Stock: $9,375,077
Options: $0

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#15 Broadcom CEO Scott McGregor made $15.9 million in 2013.

Compensation breakdown:
Salary: $977,154
Bonus: $1,631,700
Perks: $5,100
Stock: $13,333,733
Options: $0

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#14 Godfrey Sullivan, CEO of enterprise software company Splunk, made $17 million in 2013.
That's a 1,818% increase from the previous year's pay.

Compensation breakdown:
Salary: $350,000
Bonus: $630,000
Perks: $16,207
Stock: $16,011,200
Options: $

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#13 Despite having a $1 salary, Hewlett-Packard chief Meg Whitman made $17.6 million in
2013, up from $15.4 million in 2012.

Compensation breakdown:
Salary: $1
Bonus: $260,000
Perks: $275,334
Stock: $4,394,475
Options: $12,713,433

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#12 Former Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs took home $20.4 million in 2013. Jacobs stepped down
from his position in December, and he now serves as executive chairman on the company's
board.

Compensation breakdown:
Salary: $1,200,014
Bonus: $3,488,325
Perks: $760,532
Stock: $15,000,069
Options: $0

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#11 AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson made $20.6 million in 2013.

Compensation breakdown:
Salary: $1,633,333
Bonus: $5,000,000
Perks: $522,203
Stock: $13,441,558
Options: $0

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#10 Cisco CEO John Chambers made $21 million in 2013, an 80% increase over his 2012 pay.

Compensation breakdown:
Salary: $1,100,000
Bonus: $4,700,080
Perks: $11,769
Stock: $15,237,652
Options: $0

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#9 In her first full year as CEO of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer made $24.9 million. She was the
second-highest paid female executive overall.

Compensation breakdown:
Salary: $1,000,000
Bonus: $1,702,250
Perks: $73,863
Stock: $8,312,316
Options: $13,847,282

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#8 Paul Ricci, CEO of Nuance Communications, took home $29.2 million in 2013. Nuance
developed the technology that powers Siri.
Compensation breakdown:
Salary: $800,000
Bonus: $300,000
Perks: $226,829
Stock: $27,900,000
Options: $0


ul Ricci, CEO of Nuance Communications, took home $29.2 million in 2013. Nuance
developed the technology that powers Siri.


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#7 T-Mobile's John Legere was paid $29.2 million in his first year as CEO.

Compensation breakdown:
Salary: $1,250,000
Bonus: $5,358,333
Perks: $137,325
Stock: $22,500,051
Options: $0

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#6 Tony Aquila, CEO of Texas-based auto insurance software provider Solera Holdings, made
$29.9 million in 2013.

Compensation breakdown:
Salary: $780,000
Bonus: $1,247,000
Perks: $101,250
Stock: $1,367,316
Options: $26,400,045

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#5 Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff made a total of $31.3 million in 2013.

Compensation breakdown:
Salary: $1,200,000
Bonus: $1,686,600
Perks: $784,088
Stock: $0
Options: $27,662,644

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#4 TripAdvisor CEO Steve Kaufer took home $39 million in 2013, a 510% increase over his
2012 pay.

Compensation breakdown:
Salary: $500,000
Bonus: $450,000
Perks: $10,101
Stock: $0
Options: $38,054,0126

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#3 LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner made $49.1 million in 2013, a jaw-dropping 4,075% increase
from his 2012 compensation.

Compensation breakdown:
Salary: $583,750
Bonus: $1,094,531
Perks: $4,664
Stock: $18,709,690
Options: $28,678,729

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#2 New Zynga CEO Don Mattrick made $57.8 million in his first year on the job.

Compensation breakdown:
Salary: $481,409
Bonus: $5,969,863
Perks: $371
Stock: $38,035,712
Options: $13,327,036


Mattrick describes the process of getting such a major project off the ground: First off,
you have to have a vision of what you want to accomplish in the future, and thats
usually driven by the executive team or some research incubation leaders, and then you
start building with the preproduction team! "hey go and build proofs, build
technology, build prototypes and see whether something can work and also try to
measure whether its fun! #nd we went through those stages! $ater, we added more
team members and expanded it to the hundreds!%
Mattrick concludes: &hen ' think about what the opportunity is, the opportunity is to
delight consumers! "o make our art form more accessible to a broader audience!%
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#1 Oracle's Larry Ellison was tech's best paid executive in 2013, ranking third among all CEOs.
He made $78.4 million in 2013, down from $96.2 million the previous year.

Compensation breakdown:
Salary: $1
Bonus: $1,126
Perks: $1,545,930
Stock: $0
Options: $76,893,600