On Friday, 2nd May 2008, Forbes has published a list of best-compensated chief executies in technology industry in 2007. Larry Ellison from Oracle came in top paid CEO whereas he is No 14 on th Forbes’ overall list of best-paid CEOs.
Technology company chiefs did not dominate Forbes’ most recent list of best compensated CEOs. Only 8 (eight) tech executives are found amoung the top 100 most richly compensated CEOs.
Name: Lawrance Ellison
Company: Oracle
Compensation: $192.9 million
Rank among all CEOs: 1
Name: Nabeel Gareeb
Company: MEMC Electronic Materials
One Year Compensation: $79.6 million
Rank among all CEOs: 6
Name: John Chamers
Company: Cisco Systems
One year compensation: $54.8 million
Rank among all CEOs: 19
Name: Mark Hurd
Company: Hewlett-Packard
One Year compensation: $27.6 million
Rank among all CEOs: 56
Name: Jen-Hsun Huang
Company: Nvidia
One year compensation: $24.6 million
Rank among all CEOs: 61
Source: Tech’s Top-Paid CEOs
