Top 5 Highest Paid CEOs in the World

3. Tim D. Cook

Average Total and Realized Compensation in 2021 & 2022: $484 million

Needing no introduction, Mr. Tim D. Cook heads Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), the largest consumer electronics firm in the world. Apple rakes in hundreds of billions of dollars in revenue each year, and Mr. Cook just takes a small portion of it home. His stock options grants over the years have earned him hundreds of millions of dollars, but Mr. Cook agreed to a pay cut this year keeping in light the tough macroeconomic environment. Insider Monkey’s first quarter of 2023 survey covering 943 hedge funds revealed that 131 had held a stake in Mr. Cook’s firm.