Comments on: Apple’s Tim Cook made $4.175 million in 2012

By: mike

mike — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 01:36:07 +0000

Reward performance? Tim cook has been awarded about 100mm shares in Apple stock . That’s his compensation. And it makes the 4milliom quoted look like a sad joke.

By: quiviran

quiviran — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 22:34:37 +0000

Disagree. While Tim Cook is definitely earning his keep and then some, the proper corrective action is to slash CEO compensation, or tax the hell out of it, and only reward good performance and gains for the workers. If you can’t run a company so everyone shares in its success, you should go do something else, and a CEO who is paid 300 -400 times as much as his average worker quickly loses sight of everything except justifying his own paycheck. Bad for America and bad for the shareholders.

By: omalansky

omalansky — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 18:22:37 +0000

Because in most civilized countries, CEO’s earn about 15 times as much as their workers. In this country, they earn 300 times as much. No country on earth has been as ravaged by corporate greed as the good old U.S. of A.

By: omalansky

omalansky — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 18:20:32 +0000

$4.175 million is a pittance compared to what some big whigs make for stealing the country blind and contributing absolutely nothing to the public good. Apple should double Tim Cook’s yearly compensation on general principles alone.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 18:16:35 +0000

Considering the CEO of the company I work for gets over 5,000,000 and over the last 3 years he has hacked away at his employees salaries (no raise 3 years, lost pensions last year, loosing RRSP partial match at end of this year) he is under paid by a wide margin.
Oh and it’s not that we are doing bad, last year we had our best year ever in the plant I work in.

By: Snoop Dogg

Snoop Dogg — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 15:13:55 +0000

In agreement that every penny paid to Tim Cook is worth it, and unlike other CEO,s, Tim is an operations man who knows how the supply chain works, many of his peers are clueless about such operations matter in their company, they just delegate things

By: althegeo

althegeo — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 15:11:31 +0000

If a barely skilled laborer in an auto plant can make $70 to $80 an hour (including benefits) why wouldn’t CEOs have exceedingly absurd wages as well?

By: lawrence

lawrence — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 15:04:38 +0000

CEO’s make so much money, the ones that operate businesses that barely make a profit, can make more than Tim does, Tim is one of a handful in the US that actually earn their money in my opinion.

By: Producer James

Producer James — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 14:56:35 +0000

None of them need to worry about where their next meal is coming from. All of them still make more then 75% of what the average person makes in this country. I’m not hating on them and this is what the market will bare.

By: Mac Plus

Mac Plus — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 14:33:19 +0000

Unlike many CEO’s he’s worth every penny.