2010 Highest Paid CEOs

Posted on 08. Sep, 2010 by Forest in General, Opinion

I have never never been rich. I have earned a very high wage and had money but not like luxury riches that many people aspire to. Quite honestly I don’t aspire to that level but it does fascinate me that some people can just have so much money. Seriously what could be done with all that cash?

2010 Highest Paid CEOs, the list

The numbers in this list are actually 2009 take home (2010 can’t be run until 2011) but its the current list according to this article on CNN Money.

1. Larry Ellison – $84.5 million – The Oracle
2. Ray Elliott – $33.4 million – Boston Scientific
3. Ray Irani – $31.4 million – Occidental Petroleum
4. Mark Hurd – $24.2 million – Hewlett Packard
5. James Hackett – $23.5 million – Anadarko Petroleum
6. A.G. Lafley – $23.5 million – Procter & Gamble
7. William Weldon – $22.8 million – Johnson & Johnson
8. Miles White – $21.9 million – Abbott Laboratories
9. Bob Iger – $21.6 million – Walt Disney
10. Samuel Palmisano – $21.2 million – IBM
11. Robert J. Stevens – $20.5 million – Lockheed Martin
12. Randall L. Stephenson – $20.3 million – AT&T
13. Jay S. Fishman – $20.1 million – Travelers Companies
14. Jeffrey L. Bewkes – $19.4 million – Time Warner
15. John G. Stumpf – $18.8 million – Wells Fargo
16. James M. Cracchiolo – $18.2 million – Ameriprise Financial
17. K. Rupert Murdoch – $18.0 million – News Corp
18. Ronald D. Sugar – $17.9 million – Northrop Grumman
19. Alan Mulally – $17.9 million – Ford Motor Company
20. Louis Chenevert – $17.9 million – United Technologies

Assumptions from the 2010 Highest Paid CEOs list

Assumption is said to be the mother of all f**k ups but hey what the hell!

• We still live in an extremely sexist patriarchal society. Not one woman is in the top 20 and that makes me very very sad.
• If your names starts with R or J you have a better chance of being one of the highest paid CEO’s!
• Larry Ellison earns almost as much as the 3 people below him. Yikes!
• Disney and Warner are in the list. It shows what kind of grip they have over the industry.
• Petroleum and Oil is still mega business!

What did you think of the list?

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