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Apple CEO Tim Cook Earned $74.3 Million in 2025
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AussieStu
macrumors regular
Way over paid.
Not worth the money. With the way Apple is run and products released.
$500,000 at best for his work.
Not worth the money. With the way Apple is run and products released.
$500,000 at best for his work.
AussieStu
macrumors regular
Thats is for him though..
All the ground work was done by the previous staff and Steve Jobs.
Tims just sailed on that success.
So no he isnt worth 1% of that money.
Naraxus
macrumors 68030
So guiding a company to a $4 trillion dollar valuation with nearly 2 billion customers (many repeat customers btw) is "way overpaid" and only deserves "$500,000 at best for his work"? Ok.......
Abazigal
Contributor
It’s sour grapes because they aren’t making anywhere near that much money.
I am not either, and I am not bitter.
imamacperson
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iObama
macrumors 65816
wahit
macrumors member
Not bad for an Excel guy. Creativity and innovation are a couple of words that this guy does not know.
cicalinarrot
macrumors 65816
When they start paying all the taxes they owe in my country with no tricks and without being solicited by huge legal actions, he can keep what he wants.
But I would still vote for a law that allows no executive to be paid more than 100 times what they give to the least paid worker in their business. Which, in the case of Apple, would probably be $30000 a month. In that case, I'd love to see Tim add a zero to every outsourced worker's wage so he could do the same with his own.
SanderEvers
macrumors 6502a
The money these *******s make is disgusting when people out there are struggling to afford to live.
cicalinarrot
macrumors 65816
Well... why? Why nicer than $700K a year, which is still being rich?
It feels sick to me that some people can have that much money and power. Not just him, of course.
cicalinarrot
macrumors 65816
Words are pretty nuanced and flexible. They have more than one meaning most times.
"Earns" is very often used to say "deserve".
The first two synonyms on Cambridge's dictionary are "deserve" and "merit".
In this case, of course the article didn't want to judge the merit and was using the word "earn" neutrally just to say he was paid that money. But as many have pointed, there were other words that sounded more appropriate than one that could even suggest for a moment that any human is supposed to be that filthy rich.
Dirk Pieters
macrumors 6502a
I'm with you. A few million is more than plenty.
Freedom to spend time on things you like doing, see the world.
TobiWahn_Kenobi
macrumors member
Valid question. Lets examine:
Let's apply this to another type of power - why can't the stronger one just kill the weaker one in a society? I mean - he has the power so he can do as much as that power allows him.
Our society is a contract with the goal to provide value to us all (equally I would say). If unchecked power is detrimental to our society as a whole we put checks and balances on it - you are not allowed to use your physical strength to murder or steal. So why do we allow unchecked fiscal power?
The sooner he's gone the better but tbh I see no good reason to buy anything American if at all possible atm.
MacBH928
macrumors G3
Dirk Pieters
macrumors 6502a
So that's why Steve Jobs' wife is a billionaire.
It's because she inherited a few of Steve's dollars.
Dirk Pieters
macrumors 6502a
These 2 have nothing to do with each other and you know it. Crooked comparison.