Annual compensation of Apple CEO Tim Cook in the U.S. 2020-2023
highest-paid CEO in the United States.
In January 2023, Apple announced it was going to cut the compensation of CEO Tim Cook by 40 percent over the course of the year, making it decrease from 99.4 million U.S. dollars to 49 million. Cook's pay package skyrocketed to 98.7 million dollars in 2021 – over 1,400 times that of an average Apple employee – in a move that attracted criticism from investors and shareholders alike. This marked a 567 percent surge from Cook's 2020 profit of 14.8 million and turned the Apple chief the fourth