Steve Jobs’ $1 salary was dwarfed by $646 million in stock compensation for 2006, Forbes magazine said today, ranking the Apple Inc. CEO as the highest-paid executive in the U.S. In its annual CEO paycheck scorecard of the 500 biggest U.S. companies, Forbes said the $646.6 million for Jobs was more than twice the compensation of the next person on the list — Ray Irani of Occidental Petroleum, who took home $321.6 million — the bulk of it from exercised stock options.
With $315K per hour, he could easily afford a gaming PC!
Source: Computer World