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Thank goodness he's not underpaid! That means at least one employee in this world has not been underpaid!
 
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Remember when Steve technically had a $1 salary?

Remember when Steve technically had a $1 salary?
Well, he was the co-founder and had significant holdings after Apple purchased NeXT, and more...Cook is now the CEO, but he was, and is, a hired executive.

That is not the same thing. A hired executive will not take a $1 salary for a publicly traded corporation.
 
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It’s not 1,480x as hard as working as a store employee, which, assuming they make $50,000 (probably higher than a lot of them make for it was a round number so I went with it) he earned that much more.
God, this is such a silly, tired argument. Take a couple economics and business courses. Tim Cook is underpaid, if anything.

Bricklayers work “harder” than Tim Cook. It doesn’t correlate to pay. Since you don’t understand stocks, business, or how capitalism works, it’s hard to grasp why elite managers make this kind of money.
 
No wonder he thinks “normal” people can afford an Apple Vision Pro. Absolutely out of touch with reality if that’s what he is payed!!
I’m retired now. But if I was still doing publishing consulting and production for small businesses, Vision Pro would be a portable tool of choice—multiple displays and keyboard. Very cool, very compact. When working at customer locations, publishing consultants usually want to take up as little space as possible, be as invisible as possible, get the job done with excellence, get paid, disappear until the next project. I would use it for getting excellent quailty work done on schedule.

About the cost. My 1984 Macintosh equipment cost $3,700 in 1984. It revolutionaized my business and paid for itself within three months. Multiple Macs enhanced my work for four decades. Paying less than $3,700 for Vision Pro 40-plus years after 1984 seems like a fair price.
 


Apple CEO Tim Cook earned $74.6 million in 2024, up from $63.2 million in 2023, Apple said in its annual proxy filing.

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Cook's earnings included a $3 million base salary, $58 million in stock awards, $12 million in performance-based awards, and $1.5 million in other compensation, such as 401(k) contributions, life insurance premiums, vacation cash-out, security expenses, and personal air travel expenses. Cook is required by Apple to use private aircraft for both business and personal travel.

Apple set a target compensation of $59 million for Cook, but Cook earned more through the cash incentive payout that executives receive when Apple performs well.

Though Cook's 2024 compensation exceeded what he earned in 2023, it was still down from the $99 million that he was awarded in 2022. Cook and the Board of Directors opted to decrease Cook's total compensation after his 2022 earnings reached almost $100 million.

Other Apple executives, including Luca Maestri, Kate Adams, Deirdre O'Brien, and Jeff Williams, earned $27.2 million.

Article Link: Apple CEO Tim Cook Earned $74.6 Million in 2024
It's good to be the king
 
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Cook certainly earns his salary. He drives one of the most successful tech companies in the world, with 164,000 employees, selling 600,000 iPhones per day (on the average), and having 1+ Billion active and repeat Apple customers who love and purchase Apple products year after year after year.

And speaking of Apple employees... while other tech companies (google, Meta, Microsoft, LinkedIn, Yahoo, HP, Dropbox, Qualcomm, Cisco, Infineon, Intel, Intuit, Pixar, IBM, Expedia, Salesforce, eBay, Amazon, etc., etc.) had massive layoffs starting a few years ago, Apple had none.

Too little innovation. He has grown the services business I’ll give him that. But much of it was thanks to the strength of apples ecosystem. I see apples growth slowing down together with its mobile business.
 
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