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Tech's highest-paid executives

Marc Benioff: $20.8 million
Marc Benioff: $20.8 million
Company: Salesforce
Cash compensation: $1.8 million
Stock and options: $19 million

The Salesforce CEO wasn't on this list two years ago, when he took a nominal $10 in compensation. In 2010, after the company's stock rose 80%, Benioff was paid a bit better.

Benioff made $900,000 in salary and also collected a $900,000 in a bonus, in addition to the $19 million he was granted in stock options.


Source: Equilar Inc.
Note: Total compensation includes annualized base salary, discretionary and performance-based bonus payouts, the grant-date fair value of new stock and option awards and other compensation. If relevant, other compensation includes severance payments. Equilar Inc., an executive compensation research firm in Redwood Shores, Calif., prepared the data by looking at companies with more than $1 billion in revenues that filed proxies by Sept. 30, 2011.
Last updated November 10 2011: 6:44 AM ET
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