10 biggest CEO paychecks

Including salary, bonuses, stock and options, these public company CEOs took home pay packages last year worth up to $104 million.


Sanjay Jha, Co-CEO of Motorola
2008 salary: $484,615
Bonus: $0
Perks: $412,096
Stock grants: $36 million
Stock options: $67.5 million
Total: $104.5 million

Sanjay Jha joined Motorola in August, lured away from rival Qualcomm to try to shore up Motorola's struggling mobile phone business. Since then, the company has run through several rounds of job cuts as it prepares for a spin-off of its handset division.

Jha's co-CEO at Motorola, Gregory Brown, had a 2008 pay package that totaled $24.2 million. But both men will see their salaries shrink in 2009: As Motorola froze employee salaries and retirement-plan contributions in December, its CEOs said they would cut their own salaries by 25%.

Link: http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2009/news/0904/gallery.biggest_ceo_paychecks/index.html

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Ok the rest are not very popular, so I decided to post these few. Despite bad times, our CEOs still make quite a fair bit don't they?

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