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Jobs makes piles of cash

Highest paid CEO in cosmos
Mon May 07 2007, 08:08
APPLE'S spiritual and temporal leader Steve Jobs was the highest paid CEO in the IT industry last year, according to Forbes magazine.

Even though Jobs was paid a nominal one-dollar salary, Job's stock option plan earned him $646 million.

Of course these days it is not a good idea to say the word stock option to Steve, but it did earn him a fair bit.

Terry Semel, of Yahoo, was rated fifth with £174,202 and Michael Dell,of Dell, were the next biggest earners in the IT industry with a yearly package of more than $153 million.

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