to become a billionaire, not necessarily to be a financial genius to come up with and implement a pipeline or a personal computer.Many top managers of leading US companies so well controlled entrusted to them by firms that have earned fortunes on premiums, bonuses and options.Business
the Wall Street Journal published a list of 25 most highly paid top managers of leading US public companies in the last decade.As it turned out, the biggest remuneration executives receive high-tech companies and software manufacturers - seven representatives of the sector included in the list.Companies Wall Street severely battered by the financial crisis, are five members of the list.Two participants from the areas of production potrebtovarov, power, pharmaceuticals, and oil, one - from real estate, tourism and mining.To rank edition takes into account not only wages and bonuses, and fringe benefits and income from stock options and shares.
highest paid top manager in the US - Larry Ellison, founder and CEO of software maker Oracle.Mr. Ellison a decade earned 1.84 billion dollars. This is followed by Barry Diller, is part of the directors of the tourist web portal IAC (1,14 bln.).The top five also included the general director of Occidental Petroleum Corp Ray Irani (857 million USD.), One of the founders of Apple, Steve Jobs (749 million USD.), Richard Feyrbank of Capital One Financial (569 million dollars).It is noteworthy that in this list of "technical reasons" were not such rich, as the head of the fund Berkshire Hathaway Warren Buffett (his reward is symbolic), and Bill Gates, former head of the board of directors of Microsoft, which left the company in 2008.
US authorities do not welcome the large size salaries and bonuses, so the main income of the top managers receive from options (pre-emptive right to purchase, the sale of shares).Usually, the options available for seven to ten years at a price at the date of issuance of the rights, which allows senior managers to make a stock appreciation.
to photo: Larry Ellison
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Articles Source: rbcdaily.ru
