The world's highest paid CEO’s

We all know CEO’s make a lot of money. They have climbed the company ladder to get the fancy office and dedicated parking spot or in some cases their parents have handed the position over to them. That being said being the CEO of the world’s biggest company doesn’t necessarily mean you’re the highest paid. Jeff bezos is known by many as the world’s richest man and yes but his base salary as a CEO is only $81,840 per year. We are going to take a look at the world’s highest paid CEOs some of which may surprise you and many of whom you may have never heard.

10. Shantanu Narayan:

If you work in any creative field chances are you’re paying this man’s salary. Every time you open the software on your computer. Shantanu narayan is the current CEO of adobe. In 2019 his total CEO compensation was 39.1 million dollars the annual company revenue is 11.2 billion. So how did he come to make so much money? He grew up in India and went on to earn a bachelor’s degree in electronics and communication engineering. He moved to the united states of America to receive his MBA from the university of California Berkeley and quickly got started on his career. Man did he hit it out of the park right away? Shantanu first big job was at Apple. He moved on to work for silicon graphics as the director of desktop and collaboration products after working for silicon graphics. He climbed the ranks until he accepted a job at adobe in 1998 as senior vice president of worldwide product research. His hard work paid off because he was promoted to CEO in late 2007. under his guidance adobe rose to become a fortune 400 company and has had an increase in revenue every year.

9. Bill McDermott:

Bill McDermott is CEO of software company ServiceNow. Bill’s annual CEO compensation is 41.7 million dollars. Service now makes 3.5 billion dollars annually so it seems like they can definitely afford it. He landed at xerox. For 17 years working in a variety of jobs before he switched over to be the executive vice president of cybel systems in 2002. He was appointed as the CEO of sap America a software company based in Germany. By 2014 he moved on to become the CEO of sap. The very first American to do so he was extremely successful there increasing the market value from 39 billion to 159 billion dollars. After a few years he switched over to ServiceNow and became ceo.

8. Lachlan Murdoch:

Surprisingly all of the CEO’s on our list are self-made except for lachlan murdoch. The current ceo of fox corporation. Lachlan’s total CEO compensation in 2019 was 42.1 million and the annual company revenue of fox is 11.4 billion. Lachlan was born into ultra wealth. He earned a bachelor’s degree from princeton in philosophy. Though he didn’t have to use it at all when he was 18 he was flown to australia to meet with his dad and trained at the daily mirror at 22. He became the general manager of queensland newspapers. He kept going in the media business just like his father and became the publisher of The Australian. Australia’s first national newspaper. In 1995 he was appointed deputy CEO of news limited and his role climbed year after year. In 1996 he became executive director. In 2000 he became deputy chief operating officer then he went on to become executive vice president and then chairman in his role as vp. In 2014 he returned to the family business becoming the co-chairman of news corporation. His role there only lasted a year before he took on an even bigger role the executive chairman of 21st century fox and when fox was bought out by disney in 2019 he was named that ceo of fox corporation where he remains to this day.

7. Satya Nadella:

Microsoft is a company you’ve probably heard of but you may not have heard of sevilla nadella the current CEO. His 2019 CEO compensation was a whopping 42.9 million dollars. Satya was born in india and went to manipal institute of technology. Where he received a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering. He then made the leap to the united states where he went to the university of wisconsin-milwaukee and certainly froze his tail off he started his career at sun microsystems then joined microsoft in 1992. His role in microsoft was important. Immediately he led major projects mainly the big move to cloud computing. The cloud revenue grew from 16.5 billion to 20.3 billion under him alone. He served as the senior vice president of research and development for the online services division. Later he became the president of microsoft server and tools business division. In 2014 he made the big leap to CEO the third in the company’s history. His first acquisition was mojang the game company known for minecraft which costs about 2.5 billion dollars he also purchased linkedin for 26.2 billion and github for 7.5 billion.

6. Miguel Patricio:

Miguel Patricio is the CEO of a pretty well-known company craft heinz. The total CEO compensation for him in 2016 was 43.3 million dollars. Miguel was born in portugal but moved to brazil to get a business degree from a university in sao paulo. He cycled through many companies during his career including philip morris, coca-cola and johnson johnson working in exclusively executive roles. He moved on to Anheuser-busch for two decades where he eventually became the chief marketing officer and served in that role for six years. After that he moved on to craft heinz as CEO.

5. David Zaslav:

David Zaslav the CEO of discovery his total 2019 ceo compensation was 45.8 million dollars. David was born in new york and attended boston university school of law. Surprisingly he worked as an attorney for a short time before switching paths and working for NBC universal for 20 years. He then made the move to discovery as their CEO in January 2007.

4. John C Plant:

He serves as the ceo of haumet aerospace from February 2019 to April 2020. His 2019 compensation was 51.7 million dollars. He worked in automotive industries in leadership roles for years and years. He was the president of lucas verity automotive a uk-based automotive parts company. When lucas verity was acquired by TRW automotive John became the chairman he was successful at TRW for years. Under his leadership trw employed more than 65 000 people in over 190 facilities. He then moved to helmet aerospace which is an aerospace company that manufactures jet engines and other aerospace components.

3. Lisa Su:

Lisa Su has made her way in a tough industry and worked hard to rise through the ranks. she is the current CEO of advanced micro devices which is a company you’ve probably never heard of but you probably use their products every day. In 2019 her total CEO compensation was 58.5 million dollars. Lisa was born in taiwan and immigrated to the united states at the age of three. Her first job was as part of the technical staff at texas instruments. Then she moved on to IBM where she served as the vice president of their semiconductor research and development center. After a few more job hops she became the general manager of advanced micro devices a semiconductor company that develops computer processes. She then became the CEO of that company.

2. Bob Swan:

Bob Swan the current CEO of intel. In 2019 his CEO compensation was a startling 66.9 million dollars. He worked at general electric in dozens of senior finance roles over a 15-year period. He became the ceo of ge transportation systems then the vice president of ge medical systems in europe. After that he was the vp of finance then the CFO of ge lighting. He then became the CFO of webb van. After that he was the CFO of hp enterprise services and the CFO of ebay. So basically he’s gotten around in a few different industries. He eventually went on to become the CEO of intel in 2018.

1. Sundar Pichai:

The highest paid ceo in the world sundar pichai had a compensation of 280.6 million dollars. He got a metallurgical engineering degree from the indian institute of technology then got his ms from stanford and his mba from the university of pennsylvania. He started working at google in 2004 as a material engineer where he led product management and innovation for google chrome. There he oversaw important developments such as gmail, google maps and android which led him to rising even higher in the ranks. In 2019 he became the ceo of alphabet incorporated. He is known for speaking very little in meetings and allowing others to speak contributing only after others have said their peace.