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Apple CEO Tim Cook Earned $98.7M in Stock and Salary in 2021
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Snowflake's CEO makes more than that every month.
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WOW. thats 1 fourth the money APPLE generated for product RED in 15 years. Tim Cook takes home in 1 YEAR.
Amazing.
Amazing.
Tim Cook has taken on and suceeded in filling Steve Jobs shoes. He has taken the company to new heights ($$3 trillion valuation). New products coming out will confirm his success
His $100 million 2021 salary is well deserved
His $100 million 2021 salary is well deserved
He's really struggling.
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I agree. That has to be the most annoying feature. Why not use the shuffle mode?
I’d not think anybody can say Tim Cook is underpaid without a tongue firmed planted in their cheek. Apple have large profit margins on everything they sell and although we get fantastic products, we make executives like Cook disproportionately rich as a result. No, Tim Cook is not underpaid and when you look at some of the worlds leading doctors/scientists working hard to save lives on a fraction of what he earns, it certainly adds an extra level of perspective.
What perspective? He's not paid disproportionately. He's leading the world's largest company on earth. Doctors and nurses are not. He's worth every penny he's being paid by Apple. Whether or not doctors and nurses should be paid more is irrelevant to the point (and yes I agree they should be paid more, but again ... irrelevant). If you create a product or products that the entire planet uses, you should be making a lot of money. Period.
Great Job , means their kicking a$$$. Do you know how many Watch bands Tim can buy with that kinda dough! Well deserved and well done.
I was going to write something whimsical, like, ”I’d be happy with the ’.7M’ part of the 98.7m”. Then I thought - right now, .1M would be just lovely. Then I started breaking it down, now thinking that Tim Cook might read this, find it a little cute, and whimsically just send me the money! I figured that 30k would be all I’d ever ask for to get out of the covid debt, and sort my future out. Stop the sleepless nights, stop the anxiety about money.
The point is that to most people, this is a crazy amount of money that is impossible to comprehend. Some of us are just hanging on, and while it no doubt comes across as jealous, it’s perhaps more painful or desperate than that.
Being an artist, or a creative person, is not always the route to riches that it could be.
Getting a break, selling some photography, getting a leg-up, just getting paid what you’re worth. All pale into insignificance when I read about the 98.7m dollars paycheck.
Bitter? Me?
The point is that to most people, this is a crazy amount of money that is impossible to comprehend. Some of us are just hanging on, and while it no doubt comes across as jealous, it’s perhaps more painful or desperate than that.
Being an artist, or a creative person, is not always the route to riches that it could be.
Getting a break, selling some photography, getting a leg-up, just getting paid what you’re worth. All pale into insignificance when I read about the 98.7m dollars paycheck.
Bitter? Me?
Haha to the people who say he doesn't deserve that much.. that is nothing compared to the CEO of bet365 - https://www.theguardian.com/busines...enise-coates-pay-may-exceed-1bn-in-four-years
Regardless of how much he gets paid, and whether it is too little or too much, any CEO that can grow the size of any company 10 fold in 10 years is doing an awesome job.
No one deserves that much pay. And don't say "whatever the market will bear" because that's just masturbation with money.
That's not a valid argument, because the market can decide what the market wants to pay itself. Which is bull. The financial industry still thought its execs "deserved" tens of millions of dollars even as the government paid out several trillion in bailouts.
And at the same rate someone making 1/1000th what he does. and with an even smaller fraction of assets. no loopholes and no insane deductions.
I agree someone leading a successful company like Apple should be paid a lot, but we’ll have to agree to disagree on the obscene amount in question. It’s up to Apple though of course, just sharing my equally valid opinion on the matter. Cheers.
You do not get that rich by paying the employee's who build the products good wages, hence why a huge chunk of Apple's manufacturing businesses are in countries that pay low wages.
Yeah, I hate it when that happens.
My neighbors are tired of hearing ‘Darude-Sandstorm’ at max volume. But that song just kick starts my day!
And no calculator on the iPad!
That would actually be a downgrade!
Official presidential salary being $400K.
On a more serious angle: Granted that practically speaking he would live spending $0 a day and getting most things at the speed of thought… however it’s a life of being juggled around with a constant security detail glued to him, being harassed incessantly to make decisions on topics thousands of times a day, the reporters, the political parties, the opposition’s political party, travel/visit/talk here or there, etc etc
Definitely a downgrade