Your Income Salaries And Raises
Maybe you’re lucky and have a fabulous job with a great salary. They’re out there, after all. In 1999, John T. Chambers, the president of Silicon Valley-based Cisco Systems received total compensation (cash, bonuses, his gain on stock options, and other forms of compensation) of $121,701,629. Don’t feel too inferior, though. Chambers, who was 50 at the time, was the highest-paid of all Silicon Valley executives that year. Poor Timothy Cook, the senior vice president at Apple Computer, was the 100th highest paid....